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Mads Kaern
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Latest papers
Advancing undergraduate synthetic biology education: insights from a Canadian iGEM student perspective.
Canadian journal of microbiology · 2021
Measuring Single-Cell Phenotypic Growth Heterogeneity Using a Microfluidic Cell Volume Sensor.
Scientific reports · 2018
NuA4 Lysine Acetyltransferase Complex Contributes to Phospholipid Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017
Latest funding
- $228,000
Construction and Characterization of Gene Regulatory Networks in Budding Yeast
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $149,888
Flow Cytometer with High Throughput Sampler
NSERC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $5,000
Sensitivity analysis of cancer-killing virus models to improve therapeutic outcomes
CIHR · 2015 · Supervisor
9 publications.
Advancing undergraduate synthetic biology education: insights from a Canadian iGEM student perspective.
Diep P, Boucinha A, Kell B, Yeung BA, Chen X, Tsyplenkov D, Serra D, Escobar A, Gnanapragasam A, Emond CA, Sajtovich VA, Mahadevan R, Kilkenny DM, Gini-Newman G, Kaern M, Ingalls B
Measuring Single-Cell Phenotypic Growth Heterogeneity Using a Microfluidic Cell Volume Sensor.
Jing W, Camellato B, Roney IJ, Kaern M, Godin M
NuA4 Lysine Acetyltransferase Complex Contributes to Phospholipid Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Dacquay L, Flint A, Butcher J, Salem D, Kennedy M, Kaern M, Stintzi A, Baetz K
Gene expression noise facilitates adaptation and drug resistance independently of mutation.
Charlebois DA, Abdennur N, Kaern M
Identification of response-modulated genetic interactions by sensitivity-based epistatic analysis.
Batenchuk C, Tepliakova L, Kaern M
Estimating the stochastic bifurcation structure of cellular networks.
Song C, Phenix H, Abedi V, Scott M, Ingalls BP, Kaern M, Perkins TJ
A chance at survival: gene expression noise and phenotypic diversification strategies.
Fraser D, Kaern M
A non-death role of the yeast metacaspase: Yca1p alters cell cycle dynamics.
Lee RE, Puente LG, Kaern M, Megeney LA
Stochasticity in gene expression: from theories to phenotypes.
Kaern M, Elston TC, Blake WJ, Collins JJ
Construction and Characterization of Gene Regulatory Networks in Budding Yeast
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
Flow Cytometer with High Throughput Sampler
Principal investigators: Sad, Subash
Sensitivity analysis of cancer-killing virus models to improve therapeutic outcomes
Principal investigators: Irani, Johnathon J
Keywords: Ics Studentship
Defining the causes of heterogeneous riboucleotide reductase gene transcription in response to DNA damage and anti-cancer drugs
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
Keywords: Dna Damage Checkpoint; Drug Responses; Quantitative Biology; Systems Biology Of Model Organisms; Transcriptional Regulation
Imaging of chromosome segregation, gene expression and development in living cells
Principal investigators: Rudner, AdamDaniel
Construction and analysis of synthetic eukaryotic gene regulatory networks
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
Combinatorial regulation of transcription - qPCR platform
Principal investigators: Blais, Alexandre
Systems Biology
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
Signal fluctuations in gene regulatory networks
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
Canada Reseach Chair in Systems Biology
Principal investigators: Kaern, Mads
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Alain Stintzi and Mads Kaern: 1 shared paper
- Alain Stintzi and Kristin Baetz: 1 shared paper
- Mads Kaern and Michel Godin: 1 shared paper
- Mads Kaern and Kristin Baetz: 1 shared paper
- Mads Kaern and Radhakrishnan Mahadevan: 1 shared paper
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Immunology
- Other
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