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Mathieu Blanchette | |
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| Alma mater | Université de Montréal University of Washington |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2006) Sloan Fellowship (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Thesis | Algorithms for phylogenetic footprinting (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Tompa |
| Other academic advisors | David Sankoff, David Haussler |
| Website | www |
Mathieu Blanchette is a computational biologist and Associate Professor in the McGill University School of Computer Science. His research focuses on developing new algorithms for the detection of functional regions in DNA sequences.[1][2][3]
Education
Blanchette studied mathematics and computer science at Bachelor of Science (1997) level, before studying computer science at Master of Science (1998) level, both at the Université de Montréal. He gained his PhD from the University of Washington in 2002, under the supervision of Martin Tompa.[4] His thesis, titled "Algorithms for phylogenetic footprinting", presented the first reasonable algorithm for gene order phylogeny and elaborated on phylogenetic footprinting.[5] Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with David Haussler.[4][5]
Research
Blanchette became Associate Professor in the McGill University School of Computer Science in 2002. His research focuses on developing computational methods for detecting functional regions in DNA sequences. His postdoctoral work developed algorithms for reconstructing ancestral mammalian genomes. His recent work continues this path, particularly with regard to developing algorithms for inferring gene regulation.[1][5][6][7][8]
Awards and honours
Blanchette was awarded the ISCB Overton Prize in 2006, recognising his "fundamental, highly cited contributions in several areas of bioinformatics".[5] He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.[9]
Blanchette has served on the Editorial Board of the journal Genome Research and as of 2014, serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Algorithms for Molecular Biology.[4][10]
References
- ^ a b "Mathieu Blanchette - Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Mathieu Blanchette - Google Scholar Citations". Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ "dblp: Mathieu Blanchette". Retrieved 3 March 2014.
- ^ a b c "CompleteCV" (PDF). Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ a b c d Maisel, Merry (2006). "ISCB Honors Michael S. Waterman and Mathieu Blanchette". PLoS Computational Biology. 2 (8): e105. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020105.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Blanchette, M. (15 November 2004). "Reconstructing large regions of an ancestral mammalian genome in silico". Genome Research. 14 (12): 2412–2423. doi:10.1101/gr.2800104.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Blanchette, Mathieu (2012). "Exploiting ancestral mammalian genomes for the prediction of human transcription factor binding sites". BMC Bioinformatics. 13 (Suppl 19): S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-S19-S2.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Chen, Xiaoyu (2007). "Prediction of tissue-specific cis-regulatory modules using Bayesian networks and regression trees". BMC Bioinformatics. 8 (Suppl 10): S2. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-S10-S2.
{{cite journal}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "McGill gets four Sloans". www.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Algorithms for Molecular Biology - Editorial Board". www.almob.org. Retrieved 2 March 2014.