Position

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Article in Genome Research on metazoan replication origins with Mechali's group.
Article in Nucleic Acids Research on a novel approach for comparative genomics.
Article in BMC Bioinformatics about Next Generation Sequencing read indexing, joint work Universities of Rouen and Lille.
Conference Bioinformatics and High Throughput Sequencing - 2011 in Paris, 22nd March 2011, cf http://www.lirmm.fr/~rivals/HTS-2011.
Invited speaker at LIX Bioinformatics Symposium 2010 in Paris (8-10 Nov. 2010) organised by the Ecole Polytechnique.
Two presentations on High Throughput Transcriptomics by our group at the Human Genome Meeting in May in Montpellier.
Organistion of a conference Bioinformatique et Séquençage Haut-Débit in Paris, 24 March 2010, cf http://www.lirmm.fr/~rivals/SHD-2010.
Speaker at the High Throughput Transcriptomics by Sequencing Day (in French: Transcriptomique : entrez dans l'ère du séquençage haut-débit) in Toulouse (25 Nov. 2009) organised by the Cancéropôle Grand Sud-Ouest.
Published paper in Nucleic Acids Research on the bioinformatics procesing of Next Generation Sequencers' data.
Launch of the "Bioinformatics for high-throughput transcriptomics" plateau on the ATGC Montpellier Platform. This plateau is supported by the Cancéropôle Grand Sud-Ouest (GSO)

Editorial Board of the journal BMC Bioinformatics
Editorial Board of the journal The Open Bioinformatics Journal
Editorial Board of the journal The Open Applied Informatics Journal
Program Comittee member of Bioinformatics 2012 in Villamoura (Por), Bioinformatics 2011 in Roma, and Bioinformatics 2010 in Valencia (Spain);
Program Comittee member of the Comparative Genomics conference 2010, University of Ottawa, Canada
Program Comittee member of DICTAP 2011 in Dijon, France;
Program Comittee member of the French Bioinformatics conference JOBIM 2007, JOBIM 2008, JOBIM 2010
Program Chair of the Bioinformatics conference JOBIM 2009 in Nantes
Program Comittee member of European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2008
Program Comittee member of International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS) 2008

ANR (National Research Agency) "white" grant COmparison of COmplete GENomes
CNRS International Collaboration Program (PICS) and Finnish Academy of Science Efficient solutions for processing of biological sequence data issued from "Next Generation Sequencers" with the Univ. of Helsinki
RENABI, (National Network of Bioinformatics Platforms)
Univ. Montpellier II, BIOSTIC grant Bioinformatic algorithms for analysing novel RNAs from Next Generation Sequencing data
Region Languedoc Roussillon, France

Head of the GDR Bioinformatique Moléculaire from Jan 2010 until Jan 2014.
Head of the Department of Computer Science of the LIRMM from Jul. 2007 until Feb. 2010.
I was in charge of the seminar of our team MAB:

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Others:

Member of the board of the Department "Science and Technology of Information and Communication (STIC)" of the University of Montpellier II
Member of the Recruitment board (Commission de spécialistes) of the University of Montpellier III (University "Paul Valéry")
Former Member of the board of the "French Bioinformatics Scientific Society (SFBI)"

Areas: Computational Biology / Bioinformatics, Algorithmics, Genomics and Biology

Bioinformatics:
- High performance processing of Next Generation Sequencing data
- Evolution of Genomic Repeated Sequences
- Methods for sequence comparison and analysis
- Similarity searching
Genomics and biology:
- Processing of high-throughput sequencers (also called Next Generation Sequencers)
- Transcriptomics with sequence Census assays: RNA-seq, Digital Gene Expression (DGE), SAGE, etc.
- Comparative genomics
- Minisatellites analysis and evolution
- Microsatellites in genomes
- EST clustering GeneNest
String algorithms, combinatorics, and statistics:
- Combinatorics of periods in strings
- Statistics of the vocabulary of random texts
- Alignment algorithms and complexity
- String-to-string correction problem
- Detection of repeats
- One dimensional tilings

Updated on the 21st July 2011
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