Dr Christoph Sensen
Applied Bioinformatics
Dr Christoph Sensen has an iCORE Industrial Chair award ($500K) that is
matched by his industrial partner Sun Microsystems of Canada ($500K).
He has also received funding from Genome Canada ($29M), CFI ($12M),
Alberta Ingenuity Fund ($200K) and from other federal funding sources
($1.3M).
Research Program Overview
Next generation of bioinformatics tools for data exploration,
information integration, and advanced 4D visualization large-scale data
currently produced by genome research efforts need new data integration
approaches to reveal their full potential.
Dr Christoph Sensen’s Applied Bioinformatics laboratory works in two
general directions: creating the computational environment for
next-generation bioinformatics in collaboration with computer
scientists, mathematicians, and industrial partners; and creating
models of biological systems in collaboration with clinical and wet-lab
researchers.
Dr Sensen’s laboratory also seeks innovative solutions to several other
underlying technical challengesand security provisions: high degree of
usability through fully visual and fully portable interaction;
scalability of the visualization through the use of semantic zoom and
level-of-detail management and platform-independence. Dr Sensen’s
laboratory is currently expanding the intertactive capabilities of the
virtual body atlases for both human and mouse. Dr Sensen is also
developing 3D image landmarking, registration, and morphing.
Biographical Information
Dr Christoph Sensen has been an iCORE Chair since 2004. He is a tenured
full professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and an adjunct
professor at the department of computer science. He heads the Sun
Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics, one of the largest
Bioinformatics Laboratories in Canada. He is also the Principal
Investigator of Genome Canada’s bioinformatics platform, which is
coordinated by Genome Prairie.
Dr Sensen received his PhD in Cologne, Germany. His laboratory has been
involved in Genomics and Bioinformatics for more than seven years and
features the first Java 3D(tm)-enabled CAVE worldwide, which is used to
analyze and visualize complex genomics data.
He received his PhD in Cologne, Germany. His laboratory
has been involved in Genomics and Bioinformatics for more than seven
years. Much of the current work is revolving around tool integration
and the visualization of complex genomic datasets. Together with Terry
Gaasterland's lab at the Rockefeller University, he has been involved
in the MAGPIE project since 1996. MAGPIE is a fully automated genome
analysis and annotation engine, currently used to analyze and annotate
more than 50 publicly available genomes.
Related Links:
Dr Christoph Sensen’s Homepage
Dr Christoph Sensen’s U of A Homepage
March 15, 2005
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