Andrew Pelling
University of Ottawa |
Andrew E. Pelling is an associate professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008 (renewed in 2013), received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award in 2009, an Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 and was elected as a member of the international Global Young Academy in 2013. Andrew also received a Raine Medical Research Foundation Professorship in 2014. Andrew completed his undergraduate studies at University of Toronto, his PhD under the supervision of James K. Gimzewski at the University of California, Los Angeles and his post-doctoral research as a Senior Research Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London with Michael A. Horton. Andrew leads the Pelling Lab for Biological Physics, which is composed of a diverse group of experimentalists open to the possibilities that occur at the interface between disciplines. The lab is an exploratory space dedicated to understanding the limits of living systems and is generally interested in understanding how living systems can be controlled, manipulated and re-purposed using non-genetic and non-pharmacological approaches. By pushing living systems to artificial limits the lab has discovered surprising behaviours and an astonishing ability of cells to adapt and respond to unusual stimuli.
The Pelling Lab is affiliated with the Department of Physics, Department of Biology, Institute for Science Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa. The Lab is also a member of the Fluxmedia Research-Creation Network(Concordia University) and collaborates closely with SymbioticA (University of Western Australia). |