Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular Genetics,
Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research,
Donnelly Sequencing Centre
Dr. Nislow completed a Bachelor of Arts in developmental biology at New College (Sarasota, Florida) and a Doctor of Philosophy in cell and molecular biology at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado). Dr. Corey Nislow is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a Co-Founder and Director of the Sequencing + Bioinformatics Consortium, and an Advisor to the Advanced Research Computing group all at the University of British Columbia, as well as a Co-Founder of Genetic Networks LLC. Formerly, he served as group leader in two biotechnology companies (MJ Research and Cytokinetics Inc., in the San Francisco Bay Area) and as a Senior Genome Scientist at Stanford University. He was also an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Director of the Donnelly Sequencing Centre.
Dr. Nislow is a cell biologist and geneticist whose lab employs genomics and develops biotechnology tools to address both fundamental and applied biological questions using technologies such as parallel genome-wide chemical genomic screens, high throughput cell-based screens, and next generation sequencing. His research program has developed and deployed an array of chemical genomic tools for systems biology including protocols to perform genome wide screens on the International Space Station to which he has launched 4 science missions. He is the lead researcher for the Genomics for Precision Drug Therapy in the Community Pharmacy a first-in-Canada trial that empowers patients to directly access their genome data for medication management. Dr. Nislow has been involved in a few notable scientific projects; cloning the first human mitotic kinesin, identifying the founding member of the SET family of chromatin modifiers, and produced the first comprehensive genome-wide map of nucleosome occupancy in an organism.
Dr. Nislow is an accomplished academic with 170 peer-reviewed publications and 6 patents, as well as an enthusiastic instructor that enjoys teaching all aspects of biotechnology, genomics, and drug discovery for students and trainees.
"Chemogenomics: tools for protein families" and "Chemical genomics: chemical and biological integration".
Pharmacogenomics Jan, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12517281
Chemogenomic profiling: identifying the functional interactions of small molecules in yeast.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Jan, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 14718668
Mechanisms of haploinsufficiency revealed by genome-wide profiling in yeast.
Genetics Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15716499
Genome-wide requirements for resistance to functionally distinct DNA-damaging agents.
PLoS genetics Aug, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16121259
Introns regulate RNA and protein abundance in yeast.
Genetics Sep, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16816425
A unique and universal molecular barcode array.
Nature methods Aug, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16862133
Experimental approaches to identify genetic networks.
Current opinion in biotechnology Oct, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16962766
Chemical genomic profiling for identifying intracellular targets of toxicants producing Parkinson's disease.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology Jan, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17043098
Systematic pathway analysis using high-resolution fitness profiling of combinatorial gene deletions.
Nature genetics Feb, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17206143
Accelerating the discovery of biologically active small molecules using a high-throughput yeast halo assay.
Journal of natural products Mar, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17291044
Identification of genes involved in the toxic response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae against iron and copper overload by parallel analysis of deletion mutants.
Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology Jan, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 17785683
A high-resolution atlas of nucleosome occupancy in yeast.
Nature genetics Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17873876
Examining protein protein interactions using endogenously tagged yeast arrays: the cross-and-capture system.
Genome research Dec, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17989249
Genome-wide analysis of barcoded Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene-deletion mutants in pooled cultures.
Nature protocols , 2007 | Pubmed ID: 18007632
Chemical-genetic approaches for exploring the mode of action of natural products.
Progress in drug research. Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung. Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18416308
The chemical genomic portrait of yeast: uncovering a phenotype for all genes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Apr, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18420932
Identification of small molecule inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S using a yeast phenotypic screen.
PLoS genetics Feb, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18454192
The extensive and condition-dependent nature of epistasis among whole-genome duplicates in yeast.
Genome research Jul, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18463300
An integrated platform of genomic assays reveals small-molecule bioactivities.
Nature chemical biology Aug, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18622389
Yeast Barcoders: a chemogenomic application of a universal donor-strain collection carrying bar-code identifiers.
Nature methods Aug, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18622398
Off-target effects of psychoactive drugs revealed by genome-wide assays in yeast.
PLoS genetics , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18688276
Yeast chemical genomics and drug discovery: an update.
Trends in pharmacological sciences Oct, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18755517
Combination chemical genetics.
Nature chemical biology Nov, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18936752
Chemical-genetic profiling of imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and -pyrimidines reveals target pathways conserved between yeast and human cells.
PLoS genetics Nov, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19043571
A library of yeast transcription factor motifs reveals a widespread function for Rsc3 in targeting nucleosome exclusion at promoters.
Molecular cell Dec, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 19111667
Combining chemical genomics screens in yeast to reveal spectrum of effects of chemical inhibition of sphingolipid biosynthesis.
BMC microbiology , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19144191
Knocking sense into regulatory pathways.
Nature biotechnology Feb, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19204694
Computationally driven, quantitative experiments discover genes required for mitochondrial biogenesis.
PLoS genetics Mar, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19300474
Novel insights into iron metabolism by integrating deletome and transcriptome analysis in an iron deficiency model of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
BMC genomics , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19321002
Precise gene-dose alleles for chemical genetics.
Genetics Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19332878
A molecular barcoded yeast ORF library enables mode-of-action analysis of bioactive compounds.
Nature biotechnology Apr, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19349972
Self-reporting cells.
BioTechniques Apr, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19480631
Chemogenomic approaches to elucidation of gene function and genetic pathways.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19521822
Alternative splicing of PTC7 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae determines protein localization.
Genetics Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19564484
Quantitative phenotyping via deep barcode sequencing.
Genome research Oct, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19622793
Two-color cell array screen reveals interdependent roles for histone chaperones and a chromatin boundary regulator in histone gene repression.
Molecular cell Aug, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19683497
A comparative analysis of DNA barcode microarray feature size.
BMC genomics , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19825181
You too can play with an edge.
Nature methods Nov, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19876015
Recent advances and method development for drug target identification.
Trends in pharmacological sciences Feb, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20004028
Integrating high-throughput genetic interaction mapping and high-content screening to explore yeast spindle morphogenesis.
The Journal of cell biology Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20065090
The genetic landscape of a cell.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20093466
Systematic analysis of genome-wide fitness data in yeast reveals novel gene function and drug action.
Genome biology , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20226027
Genotype to phenotype: a complex problem.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20413493
Highly-multiplexed barcode sequencing: an efficient method for parallel analysis of pooled samples.
Nucleic acids research Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20460461
A universal TagModule collection for parallel genetic analysis of microorganisms.
Nucleic acids research Aug, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20494978
Most "dark matter" transcripts are associated with known genes.
PLoS biology May, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20502517
A predictive model for drug bioaccumulation and bioactivity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature chemical biology Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20512140
A survey of yeast genomic assays for drug and target discovery.
Pharmacology & therapeutics Aug, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20546776
Genome-wide screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae identifies vacuolar protein sorting, autophagy, biosynthetic, and tRNA methylation genes involved in life span regulation.
PLoS genetics Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20657825
Diversity of eukaryotic DNA replication origins revealed by genome-wide analysis of chromatin structure.
PLoS genetics Sep, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20824081
Exploring gene function and drug action using chemogenomic dosage assays.
Methods in enzymology , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20946813
Gene annotation and drug target discovery in Candida albicans with a tagged transposon mutant collection.
PLoS pathogens , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20949076
Endosomal protein sorting and autophagy genes contribute to the regulation of yeast life span.
Autophagy Nov, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20953148
Extensive role of the general regulatory factors, Abf1 and Rap1, in determining genome-wide chromatin structure in budding yeast.
Nucleic acids research Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21081559
Knocking out multigene redundancies via cycles of sexual assortment and fluorescence selection.
Nature methods Feb, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21217751
Systematic exploration of essential yeast gene function with temperature-sensitive mutants.
Nature biotechnology Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21441928
The synthetic genetic interaction network reveals small molecules that target specific pathways in Sacchromyces cerevisiae.
Molecular bioSystems Jun, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21487606
The SWI/SNF complex acts to constrain distribution of the centromeric histone variant Cse4.
The EMBO journal May, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21505420
A comprehensive platform for highly multiplexed mammalian functional genetic screens.
BMC genomics , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21548937
Dosage suppression genetic interaction networks enhance functional wiring diagrams of the cell.
Nature biotechnology Jun, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21572441
Design, synthesis, and characterization of a highly effective Hog1 inhibitor: a powerful tool for analyzing MAP kinase signaling in yeast.
PloS one , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21655328
Design, synthesis and characterization of a highly effective inhibitor for analog-sensitive (as) kinases.
PloS one , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21698101
New azole antifungal agents with novel modes of action: synthesis and biological studies of new tridentate ligands based on pyrazole and triazole.
European journal of medicinal chemistry Sep, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21723647
Signature-tagged mutagenesis to characterize genes through competitive selection of bar-coded genome libraries.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21815096
The automated cell: compound and environment screening system (ACCESS) for chemogenomic screening.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21863492
Displaying chemical information on a biological network using Cytoscape.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21877291
Evolution of nucleosome occupancy: conservation of global properties and divergence of gene-specific patterns.
Molecular and cellular biology Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21896781
Curcumin inhibits growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae through iron chelation.
Eukaryotic cell Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21908599
Nucleosome-coupled expression differences in closely-related species.
BMC genomics , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21942931
A systems biology approach reveals the role of a novel methyltransferase in response to chemical stress and lipid homeostasis.
PLoS genetics Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22028670
Compound prioritization methods increase rates of chemical probe discovery in model organisms.
Chemistry & biology Oct, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22035796
Dafadine inhibits DAF-9 to promote dauer formation and longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature chemical biology Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22057127
Systematic exploration of synergistic drug pairs.
Molecular systems biology , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22068327
Inhibition of mitochondrial translation as a therapeutic strategy for human acute myeloid leukemia.
Cancer cell Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22094260
Multiple means to the same end: the genetic basis of acquired stress resistance in yeast.
PLoS genetics Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22102822
Restriction of histone gene transcription to S phase by phosphorylation of a chromatin boundary protein.
Genes & development Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22156209
Bugs, drugs and chemical genomics.
Nature chemical biology Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22173359
Genomic approaches for determining nucleosome occupancy in yeast.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22183606
Mitochondrial electron transport is the cellular target of the oncology drug elesclomol.
PloS one , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22253786
Dafadine inhibits DAF-9 to promote dauer formation and longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans.
Nature chemical biology , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22337098
Target identification by chromatographic co-elution: monitoring of drug-protein interactions without immobilization or chemical derivatization.
Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22357554
A global perspective of the genetic basis for carbonyl stress resistance.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22384333
Genome sequence of Shigella flexneri serotype 5a strain M90T Sm.
Journal of bacteriology Jun, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22582379
Identification of yeast genes that confer resistance to chitosan oligosaccharide (COS) using chemogenomics.
BMC genomics Jun, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22727066
A novel calcineurin-independent activity of cyclosporin A in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Molecular bioSystems Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22751784
Barcode sequencing for understanding drug-gene interactions.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22821592
Dissecting DNA damage response pathways by analysing protein localization and abundance changes during DNA replication stress.
Nature cell biology Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22842922
Comparative chemogenomics to examine the mechanism of action of dna-targeted platinum-acridine anticancer agents.
ACS chemical biology Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22928710
Global gene deletion analysis exploring yeast filamentous growth.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22984072
An algorithm for chemical genomic profiling that minimizes batch effects: bucket evaluations.
BMC bioinformatics Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23009392
Genome-wide analysis of intracellular pH reveals quantitative control of cell division rate by pH(c) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Genome biology Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23021432
Functional analysis with a barcoder yeast gene overexpression system.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) Oct, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23050238
Effects of the Paf1 complex and histone modifications on snoRNA 3'-end formation reveal broad and locus-specific regulation.
Molecular and cellular biology Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23109428
Timing of transcriptional quiescence during gametogenesis is controlled by global histone H3K4 demethylation.
Developmental cell Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23123093
A phenotypic screening platform to identify small molecule modulators of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii growth, motility and photosynthesis.
Genome biology Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23158586
Lysosomal disruption preferentially targets acute myeloid leukemia cells and progenitors.
The Journal of clinical investigation Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23202731
Chemical genomic screening of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomewide mutant collection reveals genes required for defense against four antimicrobial peptides derived from proteins found in human saliva.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy Feb, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23208710
Chromatin is an ancient innovation conserved between Archaea and Eukarya.
eLife Dec, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23240084
Global analysis of SUMO chain function reveals multiple roles in chromatin regulation.
The Journal of cell biology Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23547032
Genetic and genomic architecture of the evolution of resistance to antifungal drug combinations.
PLoS genetics Apr, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23593013
Reconstitution and characterization of eukaryotic N6-threonylcarbamoylation of tRNA using a minimal enzyme system.
Nucleic acids research Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23620299
A compendium of nucleosome and transcript profiles reveals determinants of chromatin architecture and transcription.
PLoS genetics May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23658529
DNA-damaging agents in cancer chemotherapy: serendipity and chemical biology.
Chemistry & biology May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23706631
A high-throughput yeast assay identifies synergistic drug combinations.
Assay and drug development technologies Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23772551
Miniature short hairpin RNA screens to characterize antiproliferative drugs.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23797109
A novel small molecule methyltransferase is important for virulence in Candida albicans.
ACS chemical biology Dec, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24083538
A unified model for yeast transcript definition.
Genome research Jan, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24170600
PITPs as targets for selectively interfering with phosphoinositide signaling in cells.
Nature chemical biology Jan, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24292071
Sequencing and functional analysis of the genome of a nematode egg-parasitic fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia.
Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24530791
CHIP-MYTH: a novel interactive proteomics method for the assessment of agonist-dependent interactions of the human β₂-adrenergic receptor.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24561123
GC-rich DNA elements enable replication origin activity in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.
PLoS genetics Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24603708
Large-scale identification and analysis of suppressive drug interactions.
Chemistry & biology Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24704506
Broad metabolic sensitivity profiling of a prototrophic yeast deletion collection.
Genome biology Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24721214
Mapping the cellular response to small molecules using chemogenomic fitness signatures.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Apr, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24723613
A genome scale overexpression screen to reveal drug activity in human cells.
Genome medicine , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24944581
Genes required for survival in microgravity revealed by genome-wide yeast deletion collections cultured during spaceflight.
BioMed research international , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25667933
Caenorhabditis elegans is a useful model for anthelmintic discovery.
Nature communications Jun, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26108372
Genome-wide RNAi analysis reveals that simultaneous inhibition of specific mevalonate pathway genes potentiates tumor cell death.
Oncotarget Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26353928
Global Analysis of the Fungal Microbiome in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Reveals Loss of Function of the Transcriptional Repressor Nrg1 as a Mechanism of Pathogen Adaptation.
PLoS pathogens Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26588216
Dual action antifungal small molecule modulates multidrug efflux and TOR signaling.
Nature chemical biology 10, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27571477
Open Source Drug Discovery: Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles.
ACS central science Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27800551
Andrew M. Smith*,1,2,
Tanja Durbic*,2,3,
Julia Oh*,4,
Malene Urbanus1,2,
Michael Proctor5,
Lawrence E. Heisler2,3,
Guri Giaever2,6,
Corey Nislow1,2,3
1Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto,
2Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto,
3Donnelly Sequencing Centre, University of Toronto,
4Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH,
5Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University ,
6Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toronto