Ryan Giuliany

Research Interests: Alternate splicing, gene expression, RNA-editing, cancer genomics, machine learning, next generation sequencing, microbial pathogenetics and antibiotic and antiviral resistance.

I am currently a senior undergraduate in the Combined Honours in Computer Science and Microbiology and Immunology program at UBC.  For my undergraduate thesis I am investigating methods of inferring alternate splicing events from RNA-Seq data derived from tumour samples.  My work is being supervised by Dr. Raymond Ng of the Computer Science department at UBC and Dr. Sohrab Shah of BC Cancer.  I am working jointly in the labs of Dr. Samuel Aparicio and Dr. David Huntsman.

My past work has involved developing analysis pipelines for the discovery of gene-fusions from RNA-Seq data and for the inference of RNA-editing events from matched next-generation genome and RNA-Seq data.