Welcome Dr. Ferreira and Dr. Champredon
Welcome Dr. Roux-Cil Ferreira and Dr. David Champredon, two new post-docs who are joining Dr. Art Poon’s lab.
Roux-Cil completed her undergraduate in Actuarial Science at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and then obtained an MCom in Mathematical Sciences (U Stellenbosch) and a PhD in Bioinformatics, where she used dimensionality reduction and visualization techniques to study the dynamics of HIV within patients at the University of the Western Cape. As a member of the Poon lab, she will be working on developing new computational methods to study how the latent reservoir enables the long-term persistence of HIV under treatment and shapes its evolution within hosts. Her work is supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (U.S.) that is held by Dr. Zabrina Brumme at Simon Fraser University.
David completed his BSc in pure mathematics, followed by an MSc in Applied Mathematics & Finance at the Université Pierre & Marie Curie in France, before obtaining his PhD in Computational Science & Engineering at McMaster. During his doctoral research, David specialized in mathematical and computational epidemiology in application to forecasting infectious disease epidemics. At the Poon lab, David is developing agent-based models to evaluate outbreak detection methods that rely on the comparative analysis of HIV sequence data. He is also investigating the use of virus phylodynamics to infer the dynamic parameters of social networks. His work is supported by a Project Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
