Cheryl D. Helgason Lab
Cheryl D. Helgason, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Dr Helgason is a Senior Scientist in the Cancer Endocrinology Department at the BC Cancer Agency, as well as an Assistant Professor in the Surgery Department at the University of British Columbia. She is also an associate member of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Genetics, Experimental Medicine, and Interdisciplinary Oncology graduate programs.
Brad Hoffman, Ph.D.
Research Associate

Dr. Hoffman has been a member of the MORGEN team since 2006. He has been involved in all of the bioinformatics analyses of the pancreas libraries, as well as the functional validation studies. In addition to his significant scientific contributions, Dr. Hoffman has an active role in supervising the day-to-day activities in the lab.
Bogard Zavaglia, B.Sc.
Research Assistant

Bogard has been member of the MORGEN project since 2006. He is responsible for tissue collection, ChIP, cell culture, and various molecular biology aspects of the project, as well as for general laboratory maintenance.
Mike Beach, B.Sc.
Interdisciplinary Oncology M.Sc. Candidate
Mike joined the MORGEN team in January 2007. He is responsible for islet isolations, optimization of the conditions for ChIP, and validation of targets identified in the ChIP-Seq experiments using a variety of techniques including ChIP-PCR and siRNA knockdown studies.