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Quaid Morris

ResearcherDonnelly CentreUniversity of Toronto

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Quaid Morris

Researcher

Donnelly Centre

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (4 NSERC, 4 CIHR), most recently in 2019.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Research

Post-Transcriptional Regulation Rna-Binding Proteins Clip Deep Learning High-Throughput Sequencing Machine Learning Motifs Rna Secondary Structure

Latest papers

An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity.
Nature · 2026
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function.
Nature biotechnology · 2026 · senior author
Geography, Ancestry, Age and Sex Shape Somatic Autosomal Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Blood.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025

All 83 publications

Latest funding

Sequence Determinants of Human Gene Identity
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$906,525
Precision Decisions in MIS-C: Towards improving outcomes in children with COVID-19
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$459,000
Post COVID hyperinflammation: A syndrome beyond the name
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator

All 18 grants and awards

83 publications.

An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity.

Jolma A, Laverty KU, Fathi A, Yang AWH, Yellan I, Vorontsov IE, Gralak AJ, Kribelbauer-Swietek JF, Inukai S, Razavi R, Albu M, Brechalov A, Patel ZM, Nozdrin V, Meshcheryakov G, Buyan A, Kozin I, Abramov S, Boytsov A, Codebook Consortium, Morris Q, Weirauch MT, Fornes O, Makeev VJ, Grau J, Grosse I, Bucher P, Deplancke B, Kulakovskiy IV, Hughes TR

Nature2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10798-9 PMID: 42557334

A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function.

Sasse A, Ray D, Laverty KU, Tam CL, Albu M, Zheng H, Levdansky Y, Lyudovyk O, Dalal T, Nie K, Magis C, Notredame C, Valkov E, Weirauch MT, Hughes TR, Morris Q

Nature biotechnology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41587-025-02733-6 PMID: 40715457

Geography, Ancestry, Age and Sex Shape Somatic Autosomal Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Blood.

Won Kang JR, Kim YJ, Skead K, Soave D, Evans J, Bruat V, Harwood MP, Morris Q, Matovu E, Mulindwa J, Noyes H, McLeod A, Hazelhurst S, Lombard Z, Ramsay M, Fave MJ, Awadalla P

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.19.25338239 PMID: 41282824

Damage and Misrepair Signatures: Compact Representations of Pan-cancer Mutational Processes.

Harrigan CF, Campbell KR, Morris Q, Funnell T

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.29.656360 PMID: 40501882

Reconstructing the sequence specificities of RNA-binding proteins across eukaryotes.

Sasse A, Ray D, Laverty KU, Tam CL, Albu M, Zheng H, Lyudovyk O, Dalal T, Nie K, Magis C, Notredame C, Weirauch MT, Hughes TR, Morris Q

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.15.618476 PMID: 39464061

Evolution of chromosome-arm aberrations in breast cancer through genetic network rewiring.

Kuzmin E, Baker TM, Lesluyes T, Monlong J, Abe KT, Coelho PP, Schwartz M, Del Corpo J, Zou D, Morin G, Pacis A, Yang Y, Martinez C, Barber J, Kuasne H, Li R, Bourgey M, Fortier AM, Davison PG, Omeroglu A, Guiot MC, Morris Q, Kleinman CL, Huang S, Gingras AC, Ragoussis J, Bourque G, Van Loo P, Park M

Cell reports2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113988 PMID: 38517886

RNA-binding proteins that lack canonical RNA-binding domains are rarely sequence-specific.

Ray D, Laverty KU, Jolma A, Nie K, Samson R, Pour SE, Tam CL, von Krosigk N, Nabeel-Shah S, Albu M, Zheng H, Perron G, Lee H, Najafabadi H, Blencowe B, Greenblatt J, Morris Q, Hughes TR

Scientific reports2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-32245-9 PMID: 37002329

Regional mutational signature activities in cancer genomes.

Timmons C, Morris Q, Harrigan CF

PLoS computational biology2022

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010733 PMID: 36469539

PAN-cODE: COVID-19 forecasting using conditional latent ODEs.

Shi R, Zhang H, Morris Q

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2022Senior author

DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac160 PMID: 36047844

PRIESSTESS: interpretable, high-performing models of the sequence and structure preferences of RNA-binding proteins.

Laverty KU, Jolma A, Pour SE, Zheng H, Ray D, Morris Q, Hughes TR

Nucleic acids research2022

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac694 PMID: 36018788

Sequence Determinants of Human Gene Identity

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Hughes, Timothy R

Keywords: Gene Regulation; Machine Learning; Mrna; Polyadenylation; Rna Processing; Splicing; Transcription

$906,525

Precision Decisions in MIS-C: Towards improving outcomes in children with COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Project Grant

Principal investigators: Yeung, Rae S; Benseler, Susanne; Haddad, Elie

Keywords: Biomarkers; Covid-19; Cytokine Storm Syndrome; Inflammation; Kawasaki Disease; Machine Learning; Management Pathways; Mis-C; Predictive Tool; Treatment

$459,000

Post COVID hyperinflammation: A syndrome beyond the name

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps & Priorities - Post COVID-19 condition

Principal investigators: Yeung, Rae S; Benseler, Susanne; Haddad, Elie

Keywords: Biomarkers; Cytokine Storm Syndrome; Kawasaki Disease; Machine Learning; Mis-C And Mis-A; Phenotype; Post Covid Hyperinflammation; Predictive Tool; Sars-Cov-2 Variants; Treatment

Predicting health outcomes from hematopoietic evolution in large population cohorts

SupervisorCIHR2019Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Skead, Kimberly

Keywords: Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis; Blood Cancer; Cardiovascular Disease; Deep Learning; Evolutionary Genetics; Global Health; Health Aging; Predictive Medicine; Prevention; Somatic Mutations

$105,000

Machine learning and biology

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Morris, Quaid

$108,896

Comprehensive analysis of RNA-binding proteins and their cellular function

Nominated PICIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Morris, Quaid D

Keywords: Clip; Deep Learning; High-Throughput Sequencing; Machine Learning; Motifs; Post-Transcriptional Regulation; Rna Secondary Structure; Rna-Binding Domains; Rna-Binding Proteins; Rna-Binding Sequences

$1,139,850

Systematic Analysis of Post-transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms and Functions in Drosophila

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lipshitz, Howard D

Keywords: Computational Biology; Mrna Localization; Mrna Stability; Mrna Translation; Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation; Ribonucleoprotein Complex; Rna-Binding Protein; Synthetic Antibody

$1,106,190

UCAN CAN-DU: Canada-Netherlands Personalized Medicine Network in Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Personalized Medicine in Inflammation Network

Principal investigators: Yeung, Rae S; Benseler, Susanne; Swart, Joost; Wulffraat, Nico M

Keywords: Arthritis; Biomarkers; Clinical Epidemiology; Ehealth And Mobile Health; Genomics; Health Economics; Knowledge Translation; Machine Learning; Patient Preferences; Precision Medicine

$4,967,500

Systematic analysis of cooperativity between RNA-binding proteins

Nominated PICIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Morris, Quaid D

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Gene Expression; Genomics; In Vitro Binding Assays; Post-Transcriptional Regulation; Regulatory Networks; Rna-Binding Proteins

$100,000

Leveraging Electronic Medical Records and Health Administrative Data to Evaluate Patient Care and Outcomes in Osteoarthritis

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Tu, Karen; Hawker, Gillian A; Widdifield, Jessica

Keywords: Arthritis; Osteoarthritis; Primary Care; Quality Of Care; Rheumatic Diseases; Surveillance

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Quaid Morris

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

An expanded codebook of human transcription factor DNA-binding specificity.

A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function.

Geography, Ancestry, Age and Sex Shape Somatic Autosomal Mosaic Chromosomal Alterations in Blood.

Damage and Misrepair Signatures: Compact Representations of Pan-cancer Mutational Processes.

Reconstructing the sequence specificities of RNA-binding proteins across eukaryotes.

Evolution of chromosome-arm aberrations in breast cancer through genetic network rewiring.

RNA-binding proteins that lack canonical RNA-binding domains are rarely sequence-specific.

Regional mutational signature activities in cancer genomes.

PAN-cODE: COVID-19 forecasting using conditional latent ODEs.

PRIESSTESS: interpretable, high-performing models of the sequence and structure preferences of RNA-binding proteins.

Machine learning and biology

Frequent collaborators

Anna Goldenberg

Philip Awadalla

Gary Bader

Andrew Emili

Benjamin Blencowe

Timothy Hughes

Mei Zhen

Thomas Kislinger

Anne-Claude Gingras

Charles Boone

James Ellis

Karen Tu

Brian Cox

Liliana Attisano

Lincoln Stein

Janet Rossant

Morag Park

Benjamin Haibe-Kains

Jason Moffat

Guillaume Bourque

Miguel Ramalho-Santos

Phedias Diamandis

BO WANG

Ji-Young Youn

Elena Kuzmin

Morag Park

Margaret Larche

Jack Greenblatt

Shelley Bull

Walter Wodchis

Stephane Angers

Mohan Babu