Hosna Jabbari, PhD
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Personal Website: https://thecobralab.com/
Contact
Associate Professor, ENG Biomedical Engineering
- jabbari@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-8111
- Address
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13-230 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
RNA Bioinformatics Computational biology RNA therapy RNA structure-function characterization
About
Hosna Jabbari is an Associate Professor of computational biology/bioinformatics in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Cross Appointed) at the University of Alberta. She also serves as the Director of the Computational Biology Research and Analytics Laboratory (COBRA Lab). Dr. Jabbari earned her BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and both her MSc and PhD in Computer Science - Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).
Her research focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of human diseases through a transcriptomic perspective. Dr. Jabbari has a comprehensive background in predicting the complex structure of RNA and applying this knowledge to therapeutic developments. Her previous projects have included numerous RNA structure prediction studies and their functional characterization in cancer and other diseases, differential analysis of omics data, and the design of effective oligonucleotides for exon skipping. Currently, she is exploring RNA-RNA and RNA-protein interaction mechanisms and their implications for human diseases, as well as investigating the processes of aging.
Research
Our Mission: Help diagnose and cure human diseases by developing novel diagnostics and RNA therapeutics through research using techniques from bioinformatics, machine learning, data science and computational genomics.
Focus: RNA, transcriptomics, RNA-RNA interaction, RNA-protein interaction, RNA therapy, Understanding Aging process and disease progression are focus of our group, alongside explainable machine learning with applications in medicine.
Network: We have a large network of members and collaborators around the world.
You can find more information about the group at COBRA Lab webpage
Announcements
We are currently hiring for multiple positions:
- non-DNA life: https://jobs.rnacanada.ca/jobs/graduate-student/graduate-student-position-at-the-cobra-lab/
- Vaccine comparison: https://jobs.rnacanada.ca/jobs/graduate-student/postdoctoral-fellow-or-phd-positions-in-ai-and-machine-learning-for-vaccine-development/
- Self-amplifying RNA vaccines: https://jobs.rnacanada.ca/jobs/graduate-student/postdoc-phd-positions-in-sarna-for-vaccine-development/
Talks and NEWS:
Courses
BME 530 - Topics in Biomedical Engineering
Individual sections covering such topics as signal processing and rehabilitation engineering. Prerequisite: consent of Instructor.
BME 630 - Advanced Topics in Biomedical Engineering
Prerequisite: consent of Department.
Featured Publications
Alison Ziesel, Jennifer Reeves, Anastasia Mallidou, Lorelei Newton, Ryan Rhodes, Jie Zhang, Theone Paterson, Hosna Jabbari
2024 October; 10.1101/2024.10.29.620898
Tara Newman, Hiu Fung Kevin Chang, Hosna Jabbari
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 2024 May; 10.1109/TCBB.2024.3362308
Luke Trinity, Mateo Gray, Sebastian Will, Yann Ponty, Ulrike Stege, Hosna Jabbari
2023 May; 10.1101/2023.05.16.541023
Luke Trinity, Ian Wark, Lance Lansing, Hosna Jabbari, Ulrike Stege
PLOS Computational Biology. 2023 February; 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010922
Mateo Gray, Sean Chester, Hosna Jabbari
BMC Bioinformatics. 2022 December; 10.1186/s12859-022-04673-3
Alison Ziesel, Hosna Jabbari
[]. 2022 September; 10.1101/2022.09.20.508790
Tristan Zaborniak, Juan Giraldo, Hausi Muller, Hosna Jabbari, Ulrike Stege
2022 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). 2022 September; 10.1109/qce53715.2022.00037
Majid Khabbazian, Hosna Jabbari
Nature Computational Science. 2022 June; 10.1038/s43588-022-00253-w
Maryam Nakhaei-Nejad, Luke Trinity, Hosna Jabbari, manijeh pasdar, Nadia Jahroudi
Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2021 September; 10.3390/jcm10184161
Raul Ivan Perez Martell, Alison Ziesel, Hosna Jabbari, Ulrike Stege
2021 September; 10.1101/2021.09.07.459345
Tara Newman, Hiu Fung Kevin Chang, Hosna Jabbari
2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). 2021 August; 10.1109/ichi52183.2021.00082
Luke Trinity, Lance Lansing, Hosna Jabbari, Ulrike Stege
2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). 2021 August; 10.1109/ichi52183.2021.00080
Maryam Nakhaei-Nejad, Maikel Farhan, Anahita Mojiri, Hosna Jabbari, Allan G. Murray, Nadia Jahroudi
Stem Cells. 2019 April; 10.1002/stem.2978
Hosna Jabbari, Ian Wark, Carlo Montemagno, Sebastian Will
Bioinformatics. 2018 November; 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty420
Hosna Jabbari, Ian Wark, Carlo Montemagno
PLOS ONE. 2018 April; 10.1371/journal.pone.0194583
Hosna Jabbari, Ian Wark, Carlo Montemagno, Sebastian Will
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH, Wadern/Saarbruecken, Germany. 2017 January; 10.4230/LIPICS.WABI.2017.12
Hosna Jabbari, Maral Aminpour, Carlo Montemagno
ACS Combinatorial Science. 2015 October; 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00079
Sebastian Will, Hosna Jabbari
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2015 January; 10.1007/978-3-662-48221-6_19
Hosna Jabbari, Anne Condon
BMC Bioinformatics. 2014 December; 10.1186/1471-2105-15-147
Ho-Lin Chen, Anne Condon, Hosna Jabbari
Journal of Computational Biology. 2009 June; 10.1089/cmb.2008.0219
Anne Condon, Hosna Jabbari
Theoretical Computer Science. 2009 February; 10.1016/j.tcs.2008.09.042
Hosna Jabbari, Anne Condon, Shelly Zhao
Journal of Computational Biology. 2008 March; 10.1089/cmb.2007.0198
Hosna Jabbari, Jon C. Muzio, Lin Sun
10th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2007). 2007 August; 10.1109/dsd.2007.4341489
Hosna Jabbari, Jon C. Muzio, Lin Sun
2007 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. 2007 January; 10.1109/ccece.2007.27
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