Christoph W. Sensen Teaching Activities

Phone: [1] 403 220-4301 | Fax: [1] 403 210-9399 | E-mail: csensen@ucalgary.ca

EMBO and FEBS course participation:

• EMBO PRACTICAL COURSE (1991) at the Genetisches Institut der Universität zu Köln: Flow Cytometry, A tool in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
• EMBO course on "DNA SEQUENCING: approaches, automated methods and analysis" (1992) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
• FEBS/EMBL course on Advanced Techniques in DNA sequencing and Microinjection (1993) at the Purkyne Institute, Charles University, Prague.
• EMBO Practical Course on Sequence Analysis and Molecular Evolution (1993) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
• EMBO course on "DNA SEQUENCING: approaches, automated methods and analysis" (1993) EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.

Tutorials:

• ISMB'96 in St. Louis: Automated Microbial Genome Analysis (with Terry Gaasterland) in St. Louis

Workshops

• 3rd International Conference on Advanced Digital Technology in Head and Neck Reconstruction in Cardiff, UK: Christoph W. Sensen and Jung Soh: Virtual Reality Meets Medicine: CAVEman Demonstration

Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops participation:

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (1999) at the University of Calgary: Bioinformatics.
• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (2000) at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver: Genomics.
• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (2001) at the University of Calgary: Bioinformatics.
• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (2001) at Concordia University, Montreal: Genomics.
• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (2004) at the University of Calgary: Proteomics.
• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop (2005) at the University of Calgary: Genomics.

The Applied Computational Genomics Course participation:

• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2003) at the University of Calgary.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2003) at the University of Toronto.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2004) at the University of Manitoba.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2004) at the NRC Institute for Marine Biosciences in Halifax.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2005) at the University of Calgary.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2006) at the University of Manitoba.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2007) at McGill University in Montreal.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2007) at the University of Alberta.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2008) at the University of Alberta.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2009) at the University of Calgary.
• Genome Canada Bioinformatics Workshop (2009) at McGill University in Montreal.

Bielefeld International Summer School on Advanced Techniques in Bacterial Genome Research participation:

• Summer School 2009

University of Calgary:

• MDSC 675: Bioinformatics Resources for the Biologist (every Winter Semester) (2006 class page)
• MDSC 401: Introduction to Bioinformatics (every Winter Semester, shared with Dr. Christian Jacob) (2006 class page) (2007 class page)
• MDSC 755.02: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Course (Fall Semester): Bioinformatics Module
• MDSC 755.64: Bioinformatics Tool Development: Khaled Abdel Rahman (2003)
• MDSC 397: Andrew Ah-Seng (Winter 2005)
• MDSC 397: Morgan Taschuk (Winter 2005)
• BCEM 507: Sohaib Ali (Winter 2005)
• MDSC 303: Inquiry III (BHSc) (Fall 2006)
• MDSC 677.08: Hong Chi Tranh (MBT) Competitive Analysis of Bluejay (Spring 2007)
• BMEN 601: Bioinformatics (Fall 2009)

Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Jung Soh
• Oskar Meruvia-Pastor
• Mei Xiao
• Ye Zhang

Students:

• Paul Gordon (PhD, Computer Science),  (co-supervision with Ken Barker, Computer Science)

Summer Students:

• currently none

Student Committees:

• currently none

BHSc Student Tutor for:

• Nabil Abou Reslan
• Larissa M Sanesh

Former PostDoctoral Fellows and Research Associates

• Roger Ebanks (2000-2001), PostDoc at Dalhousie University. Roger now works at the National Research Council's Institute for Marine Biosciences.
• Quang Trinh (2005-2007)
• Andrei Turinski (2002-2007)

Former Students:

• Youlian Pan (Masters, Computer Science), at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (co-supervision with Michael Shepherd, Dalhousie University). Youlian now works at the National Research Council's Institute for Information Technology (IIT) as a Research Officer.
• Khaled Abdel Rahman (Masters, Biotechnology), at the U of C. Khaled now works as a PhD student in Mike Surette's laboratory at the U of C.
• Irene Li (MBT) Irene graduated with her Master's in 2004, now works at the Michael Smith Genome Sequencing Centre in Vancouver
• Paul Gordon (Masters, Computer Science), at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (co-supervision with Michael Shepherd, Dalhousie University). Paul is now a PhD student in my lab
• William Chow (MBT)
• Julie Stromer, (Masters, Computer Science), (co-supervision with Ken Barker), graduated at the beginning of 2007
• Morgan Taschuk (U of C): Honor's thesis in the Bachelor or Health Sciences, Bioinformatics stream, graduated in April 2007
• Choo-Leong Kua (U of C): Honor's thesis in the Bachelor or Health Sciences, Bioinformatics stream, graduated in April 2007
• Hong Chi Tranh (MBT) graduated in 2007
• Anguo Dong (Masters, Computer Science), (co-supervision with Ken Barker) graduated at the end of 2007
• Kris Borowsky (Honors Thesis, Bachelor of Health Sciences, Bioinformatics Stream) graduated in 2008

Former Student Committees:

• Melissa Dobson (U of C) [Gravel Lab]: graduated in 2004, is a PostDoc at the U of A
• Kai-Yu Wu (U of C) [Liu Lab]: graduated in 2005. is a PhD student at the U of C
• Mike Russell (U of C) [Riabowol Lab]: graduated in 2006, is now a MD student at the U of C
• Jeff LaFrenz (U of C, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) [Kaler Lab], is still at U of C, but switched gears
• Stephanie Minnema (U of C) [Rancourt Lab], now is a PostDoc with Jim McGhee at the U of C
• Xiolan Feng (U of C) [Riabowol Lab]
• Quang Trinh (U of C, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science) [Barker Lab]
• Sean Caffrey (U of C, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology) [Voordous Lab]
• Masumi Yajima (U of C, Fine Arts): Master's in Fine Arts (Photography), (co-supervision with Marjan Eggermont, Engineering)
• Marnie Andersen (Master's student at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine) [Neumann Lab]
• Björn Oleson (PhD student at the University of Bielefeld)

Former Lab Members:

• Alexandra Fedynak (summer student). Amber now studies at the University of Waterloo.
• Ted Quon, now a Master's student at the U of T.
• Jeroen Keijser (Masters Program, Computer Science)
• Chris Koster (former summer student) now at Mount Royal College in Calgary
• Praveen Agarwal (former summer student) now at IIT India
• Björn Oleson (PhD student, former visitor from the University of Bielefeld)
• Mark Möller (PhD student, former visitor from the University of Bielefeld)
• Wei Liu (U of C) is still in the BHSc prgram at the U of C
• Peter Kublik (U of C) is still in the BHSc program at the U of C
• Krys Borowski (U of C) is still in the BHSc program at the U of C
• Andrew Ah-Seng (U of C) is still in the BHSc program at the U of C
• Brian Lai (U of C) is still in the BHSc program at the U of C
• Katharina Hochauer, Hagenberg, Austria
• Baptiste Pince, University of Poitiers, France
• Pierre Guillaume Gourio Jewell, University of Toulon and Var, France
• Ajay Sabhaney, summer student in 2007
• Ryan Janzen, summer student in 2007
• Alexander Kaiser, Bielefeld University, summer student in 2007
• Hermann Romanek, Hagenberg, Austria, summer student in 2007
• Georg Summer, Hagenberg, Austrua, summer student in 2007

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