Corey Nislow's Biography

Corey Nislow, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Corey Nislow received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, working with Dr. J. Richard McIntosh where they uncovered the first human mitotic kinesin. Dr. Nislow was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Lorraine Pillus on transcriptional silencing. After several years in the biotech sector, Dr. Nislow joined the Stanford Genome Technology Center, developing automated parallel phenotypic assays. At the University of Toronto since 2006, Dr. Nislow has pioneered microarray and sequence-based platforms to understand chemical genomic interactions and chromatin architecture. He is director of the Donnelly Sequencing Centre at the University of Toronto