Team

Selin joins the LTRI on September 1st, 2026, after a postdoc at Stanford University in the labs of Will Greenleaf and Anshul Kundaje. Supported by a CIHR Banting Fellowship and a Wu Tsai Neurosciences Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship, she worked on using interpretable deep learning models to infer rules of transcription factor binding site organization in human development. Prior to that, she spent ten years in Montreal. At McGill, she completed a Joint Honours in Computer Science and Biology, and was a founding member of the ECOLE sustainability project. She then pursued a PhD in the lab of Claudia Kleinman at the Lady Davis Institute and McGill University as part of the inaugural cohort of the Quantitative Life Sciences program. During her PhD, she used data-driven approaches to identify cell-of-origin in several subtypes of deadly pediatric brain tumors. There, she got hooked on fundamental questions of cell identity and how it’s established in development and disrupted in disease that motivate her lab’s work today.

Shirley received her HBA from the University of Toronto in 2019 and spent five years working in business operations for a few luxury brands in Toronto. In 2025, she completed a graduate certificate in Human Resources Management and gained hands‑on experience as an HR Associate during her placement at SickKids Hospital. She provides administrative support to help keep the lab running smoothly. Outside the office, she enjoys camping, hiking, and vlogging.

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