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Léonard Sauvé successfully defends his doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Léonard Sauvé for successfully defending his thesis! His thesis, entitled Parameterization of Survival Models & Dimensional Reduction by Deep Learning on Cancer Transcriptomes, is now available in the UdeM Papyrus system.

Léa Kaufmann is invited to the 31st Scientific Symposium of the Department of Biochemistry and Functional Genomics at the Université de Sherbrooke

As the recipient of the 2024 Simon-Pierre Noël Day First Prize, Léa Kaufmann was invited to present her research at the Université Sherbrooke Symposium. She gave a presentation on "[The] Use of gene expression profiles to predict the biological activity of chemical compounds in cancer cells" in addition to attending various student presentations.

Léa Kaufmann wins FESP artificial intelligence scholarship

Léa Kaufmann is the recipient of the $10,000 artificial intelligence scholarship awarded by UdeM Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Congratulations!

Safia Safa-tahar-henni successfully defends her doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Safia Safa-tahar-henni for successfully completing her thesis defense! Her thesis, entitled Targeted Therapy for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia Caused by KMT2A Chromosomal Translocations, is now available in the UdeM Papyrus system.

Nicolas Jacquin begins his doctorate in the Lemieux Laboratory

Following the submission of his master’s thesis, Nicolas Jacquin continues his studies in the Lemieux Laboratory and begins a doctoral thesis! His thesis, entitled Transcriptomics by k-mers through the adaptation of factored vector representations and the identification of genomic contexts, is now available in the Papyrus system of UdeM.

Welcome to Serena Chan

Serena Chan is joining the Lemieux Laboratory to complete her master’s thesis. Welcome

Nicolas Jacquin presents his research work at the CSHL 2024 Meeting on Biological Data Science

Nicolas Jacquin presented a poster on the reconstruction of transcriptomic profiles from k-mers and using machine learning during the *Biological Data Science meeting *, organized by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)

Sébastien Lemieux becomes scientific director for Calcul Québec

The appointment of Séabstien Lemieux as Scientific Director for Calcul Québec has been approved by the CQ Board of Directors. Congratulations!

Carl Munoz wins one of the prizes in the 2024 Science Réflexion competition

Carl Munoz was rewarded during the Science Réflexion 2024 competition for his work Far Light. Congratulations Carl!

Toky Ralambomihanta presents at IRIC Intern Day

Toky Ralambomihanta presented his work at the th IRIC Summer Interns’ Day. His poster presented his work on improving factorized embeddings for predicting drug-induced changes in gene expression. Good job!