Guillaume Bourque
Professor, Department of Human Genetics,
McGill University Montreal, QC
Director of Bioinformatics; McGill Genome Center
Dr. Guillaume Bourque is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University and serves as the Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill Genome Centre.
He leads the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics (C3G), a Genome Canada bioinformatics platform, and the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM). Dr. Bourque's research focuses on understanding mammalian genomes through comparative genomic and epigenomic analyses, with interests in the evolution of regulatory sequences, the role of transposable elements in gene regulation, and the impact of genome rearrangements in evolution and cancer. He is also involved in large-scale health initiatives that have a strong genomic and bioinformatics component, developing advanced tools and scalable computational infrastructure to enable large-scale applied research projects.