Genetic Networks Program Members

Andrew Fraser

Program :

Genetic Networks

Appointment :

Scholar

Institution :

University of Toronto

Country :

Canada

Andrew Fraser is an Associate Professor in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto, as position he has held since 2008. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Imperial Cancer Research, U.K. and completed a postdoctoral research training period at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA from 1999 to 2002. From 2002 to 2008, he worked as an Investigator (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, U.K.

Dr. Fraser’s research interests include inter-cellular communication and developmental cell biology/differentiation, in particular the global effects that mutations in genes can have on other genes and pathways. He is one of a handful of people worldwide using large-scale approaches to study genetic interactions in C. elegans. He has been a key leader in carrying out genome-wide RNA studies, developing protein interaction maps and taking a systems biology approach to functionalizing the C. elegans genome.