Belinda S.W. Chang
Director, Genome Biology & Bioinformatics Collaborative Graduate Program
Professor, Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Cell & Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Email: belinda.chang@utoronto.ca
AFFILIATIONS
- Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cell & Systems Biology
- Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution & Function
- Vision Science Research Program
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program
- Neuroscience Program
- Genome Biology & Bioinformatics Program
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
University of Toronto, Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary/Cell & Systems Biology, Jan 2003 – present
Associate Professor, then Full Professor
Canada Research Chair, in Comparative Evolutionary Neurobiology
Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, 1999 – 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. T.P. Sakmar
Harvard University, Dept. of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, 1996 – 1999
NSF/Sloan Molecular Evolution Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. M.J. Donoghue
Harvard University, Ph.D. 1995, with Profs. N.E. Pierce and R.C. Lewontin
Division of Medical Sciences
Program in Neuroscience
Ph.D. Dissertation: Comparative studies of opsin structure and function: the evolution of wavelength regulation.
Princeton University, A.B. 1988
Magna cum laude in Biology, Phi Beta Kappa
ACADEMIC HONORS
Human Frontier Research Program Award, 2012, 2023
Canada Research Chair, Tier II, 2003, 2008
Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award, 2003
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, New Opportunities Award, 2003
Allene Reuss Memorial Trust Grant, 2002
NSF/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evol., 1997