Andrew Simmonds

About

Dr. Simmonds has been a faculty member in the department since 2002 (Chair since 2020) and leads a research laboratory funded by NSERC, CIHR and other sources, studying regulation of cell differentiation by gene regulation and cell metabolism using fruit flies to model human disease. He is active in the classroom teaching undergraduate courses and mentoring MSc, PhD and PDF trainees. Dr. Simmonds was recently reappointed as faculty lead of the FoMD Cell Imaging (Microscopy) core facility (since 2018), providing support to researchers in FoMD. He is former president of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences and was recently appointed co-editor in chief of the journal Genome (Canadian Science Publishing).