François Bachand
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Sherbrooke
Canada
Biography
Canada Research Chair - $ 500,000 / year over 5 years. $ 537,340 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Molecular control of ribosome biogenesis. $ 668,285 over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) - Characterization of the molecular basis of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. Finalist at the Maud Menten Prize of the CIHR Institute of Genetics. Recipient of a Career Development Award from the International Human Frontier Science Program.
Research Interest
Control of gene expression by post-transcriptional mechanisms
Publications
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Larochelle M, Hunyadkürti J, Bachand F. Polyadenylation site selection: linking transcription and RNA processing via a conserved carboxy-terminal domain (CTD)-interacting protein. Current genetics. 2017 May 1;63(2):195-9.
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Landry-Voyer AM, Bilodeau S, Bergeron D, Dionne KL, Port SA, Rouleau C, Boisvert FM, Kehlenbach RH, Bachand F. Human PDCD2L is an export substrate of CRM1 that associates with 40S ribosomal subunit precursors. Molecular and cellular biology. 2016 Dec 15;36(24):3019-32.
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Mallet PL, Larochelle M, Bachand F. Multiple Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Pathways Collaborate to Control Sense and Antisense RNAs of Tf2 Retroelements in Fission Yeast. Genetics. 2017 Feb 1;205(2):621-32.
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Tetreault-Laflamme A, Crook J, Hamm J, Pickles T, Keyes M, McKenzie M, Pai H, Bachand F, Morris J. Long Term PSA Stability and Predictive Factors of Failure after Permanent Seed Prostate Brachytherapy. The Journal of Urology. 2017 Aug 19.
