Mathieu Blanchette
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Canada
Biography
After completing his Ph.D. (U. of Washington, 2002) and postdoc (UC Santa Cruz, 2003), Mathieu joined the School of Computer Science at McGill and founded the Computational Genomics Lab. The research made by his awesome team has been published in more than 70 publications. Recently elected member of the College of Scholar of the Canadian Royal Society, he was a Sloan Fellow (2009), and received the Outstanding Young Computer Scientist Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association for Computer Science (2012), and the Chris Overton prize (2006). He loves teaching and supervising students, and received the Leo Yaffe prize for teaching (2008).
Research Interest
Computational Genomics
Publications
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Joly-Lopez Z, Hoen DH, Blanchette M, Bureau T. (2016) Phylogenetic and genomic analyses resolve the origin of important plant genes derived from transposable elements. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (8): 1937-1956. Pubmed.
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Dali R and Blanchette M. (2017). A Critical Assessment of Topologically Associating Domain Prediction Tools. Nucleic Acids Research. In press. Pubmed
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Leclercq M, Diallo AB, Blanchette M. (2017). Prediction of Human miRNA Target Genes using Computationally Reconstructed Ancestral Mammalian Sequence. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(2):556-566.Pubmed
