Amjad Khan
|Adjunct Assistant Professor|Postdoctoral Associate|
Medical Bioinformatics @Western
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1
mathbioinfo@gmail.com
I am an applied mathematician focusing on mathematical modeling of biological and health-related problems. I am particularly interested in bacterial and viral genome evolution. Other areas of interest are the emergence and propagation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and genomic epidemiology. I use a blend of techniques from mathematical modeling, bioinformatics, and scientific computing. I am also interested in STEM education and differential equations.
- Adjunct Assistant Professor (2023-Present), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1
- Postdoctral Assosiate (2022-Present), Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C1
- Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022), Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2 Canada
- PhD (Applied Mathematics) (2015-2020), Department of Mathematics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7
- MSc (Applied Mathematics) (2013-2015), Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
News
- We'll be hosting a workshop/ARETE all-hands meeting at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from May 17–19, 2022. Presentations, as well as software training, will be conducted both virtually and in person.
- A manuscript "Exploring the mobilome and resistome of Enterococcus faecium in a One Health context across two continents " co-authored with ARETE collaborators has been submitted for publication.
- My article with Prof. Lindi M. Wahl, "Quantifying the forces that maintain prophages in bacterial genomes", has been acknowledged as deserving of honorable mention in Theoretical Population Biology. An announcement will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal (most likely February 2022).