Biography:Mathieu Blanchette (computational biologist)

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Mathieu Blanchette
Born
Mathieu Daniel Blanchette
Alma mater
Awards
  • Overton Prize (2006)
  • Sloan Fellowship (2007)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisAlgorithms for phylogenetic footprinting (2002)
Doctoral advisorMartin Tompa[2]
Other academic advisors
Websitewww.cs.mcgill.ca/~blanchem/

Mathieu Daniel Blanchette is a computational biologist and Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University. His research focuses on developing new algorithms for the detection of functional regions in DNA sequences.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

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.[2][11] His thesis, titled Algorithms for phylogenetic footprinting,[2] presented the first reasonable algorithm for gene order phylogeny and elaborated on phylogenetic footprinting.[12] 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.[11][12]

Research

Blanchette became Associate Professor in the McGill University School of Computer Science in 2002. His research[1][4][5] 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.[3][12][13][14][15]

Awards and honours

Blanchette was awarded the ISCB Overton Prize in 2006, recognising his "fundamental, highly cited contributions in several areas of bioinformatics".[12] He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.[16]

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.[11][17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Blanchette, Mathieu Daniel (2002). Algorithms for Phylogenetic Footprinting (PhD thesis). University of Washington. ProQuest 305515226.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mathieu Blanchette - Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, McGill University". http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~blanchem/. Retrieved 2 March 2014. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Blanchette, Mathieu's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  6. ↑ Blanchette, M.; Kent, W. J.; Riemer, C.; Elnitski, L.; Smit, A. F.; Roskin, K. M.; Baertsch, R.; Rosenbloom, K. et al. (2004). "Aligning Multiple Genomic Sequences with the Threaded Blockset Aligner". Genome Research 14 (4): 708–715. doi:10.1101/gr.1933104. PMID 15060014. 
  7. ↑ Thomas, J. W.; Touchman, J. W.; Blakesley, R. W.; Bouffard, G. G.; Beckstrom-Sternberg, S. M.; Margulies, E. H.; Blanchette, M; Siepel, A. C. et al. (2003). "Comparative analyses of multi-species sequences from targeted genomic regions". Nature 424 (6950): 788–93. doi:10.1038/nature01858. PMID 12917688. https://zenodo.org/record/1233265. 
  8. ↑ Blanchette, M; Tompa, M (2002). "Discovery of regulatory elements by a computational method for phylogenetic footprinting". Genome Research 12 (5): 739–48. doi:10.1101/gr.6902. PMID 11997340. 
  9. ↑ Guillemette, B; Bataille, A. R.; Gévry, N; Adam, M; Blanchette, M; Robert, F; Gaudreau, L (2005). "Variant histone H2A.Z is globally localized to the promoters of inactive yeast genes and regulates nucleosome positioning". PLOS Biology 3 (12): e384. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030384. PMID 16248679.  open access
  10. ↑ Margulies, E. H.; Blanchette, M; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program; Haussler, D; Green, E. D. (2003). "Identification and characterization of multi-species conserved sequences". Genome Research 13 (12): 2507–18. doi:10.1101/gr.1602203. PMID 14656959. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Matthieu Blanchette Complete CV". http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~blanchem/CompleteCV.pdf. Retrieved 2 March 2014. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Maisel, M. (2006). "ISCB Honors Michael S. Waterman and Mathieu Blanchette". PLoS Computational Biology 2 (8): e105. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020105. Bibcode: 2006PLSCB...2..105M.  open access
  13. ↑ Blanchette, M; Green, E. D.; Miller, W; Haussler, D (2004). "Reconstructing large regions of an ancestral mammalian genome in silico". Genome Research 14 (12): 2412–23. doi:10.1101/gr.2800104. PMID 15574820. 
  14. ↑ Blanchette, M (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. PMID 23281809.  open access
  15. ↑ Chen, X; Blanchette, M (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. PMID 18269696.  open access
  16. ↑ "McGill gets four Sloans". www.mcgill.ca. https://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/12/sloans/. Retrieved 2 March 2014. 
  17. ↑ "Algorithms for Molecular Biology - Editorial Board". www.almob.org. http://www.almob.org/about/edboard. Retrieved 2 March 2014. 




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