I am interested in genome biology and the mechanisms underlying gene expression regulation. In particular, my research focuses on improving the characterisation and profiling of transcriptomes by combining the development of bioinformatics methods with single molecule real-time sequencing.
One of my lab's main objectives is to translate the latest genomic technologies into new clinical research applications.
Career Summary
After majoring in microbiology and immunology at the University of Montreal, I discovered genomics and bioinformatics during my Master’s degree, where I characterised regulatory sequences in the genome of trypoanosomatid parasites.
I then pursued doctoral studies at the University of Queensland in Australia, using bioinformatics and comparative genomics to identify evolutionarily conserved RNA secondary structures in the human genome and facilitate the functional characterisation of long non-coding RNAs.
During my postdoc at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, I developed algorithms and pipelines for the analysis of transcriptomic data, including diverse high-throughput RNA sequencing methods. Through this work, I discovered nanopore sequencing, which became a major interest of my team as leader of the genomic technologies program at the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics.