John A. Morris, Principal Investigator
Dr. John A. Morris is an Assistant Professor at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomedical Research and the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto.
His research focuses on identifying the genetic determinants of human traits and diseases through genome-wide association studies, functional genomics integration, and massively parallel perturbation screens to study genetic variants within cell-specific contexts.
Dr. Morris received his PhD from McGill University in 2018, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the New York Genome Center and New York University.
Marinella Gebbia, Lab Manager
Dr. Marinella Gebbia is the laboratory manager and is responsible for running our wet lab and tissue culture spaces.
She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Milan. During her postdoc years at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas), she worked on X-linked heterotaxia syndrome which led to the cloning of the ZIC3 gene. After moving to Canada and joining the University of Toronto, she has worked on chemo-genomic profiling projects to identify the mechanism of drug action in S. cerevisiae and Deep Mutational Scanning projects in yeast and mammalian cells.