December - Dr. Major, Paul Dallaire, Mathieu Dupont¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015 16h00 - 18h00
Location:
Location: Jacques-Genest auditorium, IRCM
Schedule:
16h00 - 16h05 — Introduction and community announcements
16h05 - 16h45 — Dr. Major (IRIC) — "MiRBooking simulates the stoichiometric mode of action of microRNAs"
16h45 - 17h05 — Snacks and refreshments
17h05 - 17h35 — Paul Dallaire, PhD (IRIC) — "Structural Dynamics Control the MicroRNA Maturation Pathway"
17h35 - 18h00 — Mathieu Dupont (IRIC) — "Identification of dynamic motifs in RNA"
Dr. Major and his team will present their work on RNA engineering.
Dr. Major, principal investigator at IRIC, is a pioneer in bioinformatics in Montreal. He has trained a few generations of bioinformaticians. He is also one of the rare bioinformaticians to open his own wet-lab.
Here is a summary of his research: We "want to understand and characterize human gene regulatory networks; link cell content to phenotypes; and, design and create artificial molecular components to peek and poke cell information and programmes. […] We are developing a suite of programs to analyze, model, predict, and determine RNA 2D and 3D structure." (Major lab)
As this is also the last meeting of 2015, and the next meeting will not be before February, we are also going to go to Benelux after to celebrate the end of the year.
Speaker: Dr. Major
Affiliation: IRIC
Talk Title: MiRBooking simulates the stoichiometric mode of action of microRNAs
Speaker: Paul Dallaire, PhD
Affiliation: IRIC
Talk Title: Structural Dynamics Control the MicroRNA Maturation Pathway
Speaker: Mathieu Dupont
Affiliation: IRIC
Talk Title: Identification of dynamic motifs in RNA
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