Mark Wilkinson

Who is Mark Wilkinson?

Dr. Wilkinson earned his Bachelors degree in genetics from the University of Alberta in 1990, with an emphasis on developmental genetics. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Botany studying the role of the UFO gene in floral pattern formation in Arabidopsis. He followed a post-doctoral program under the Human Fronteirs Science Program Organization at the Max Planck Institut fuer Zuechtungsforschung in Cologne Germany studying floral pattern formation in Snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus), during which he made a career shift into Bioinformatics. He pursued a second post-doctoral fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada's Plant Biotechnology Institute emphasizing bioinformatic analysis. He then worked as a freelance bioinformatics consultant for one year, after which he joined the iCAPTURE Team at the Heart + Lung Research Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia.He is founder and leader of the BioMoby interoperabilty project, and issues of resource discovery, interoperability, and integration remain his primary research interest.