Team

Sebastien Rodrigue’s team, Université de Sherbrooke, December 2022
(credits: Michel Caron)

Principal Investigator

• Sébastien Rodrigue, Ph.D.

Full Professor

TATUM Bioscience Co-Founder and CSO.

M.Sc. and Ph.D. Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke

Post-doctorate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Postdoctoral fellows

• Antoine Champie, Ph.D.

Investigating synthetic lethality in Escherichia coli.

• Nancy Allard, Ph.D.

Developement of a minimal and predictable metabolic cellular chassis by the rational design and reduction of the Escherichia coli genome.

• Kevin Neil, Ph.D. 

TATUM Bioscience Co-Founder and CTO

Development of LBT-1 as an alternative technique to antibiotic
molecules.

• Amel Ben Lagha, Ph.D.

  (co-direction with Prof. Nathalie Rivard, Université de Sherbrooke)

Understanding the interplay between Shp-2 and microbiota in colonic
inflammation.

• Alexandre Desroches, Ph.D.

  (co-direction with Immune Biosolutions)

Graduate students

• Simon Jeanneau, Ph.D. Student

  (co-direction with Prof. Pierre-Étienne Jacques)

Integrative analysis of omics datasets and development of bioinformatic pipelines.

• Nicolas Allaire-Tanguay, Ph.D. Student

Genetic engineering of conjugative plasmid TP114.

• Julien Faure-Lévesque, Ph.D. Student

Development of bioinformatic tools for whole-genome design and assembly.

• Jean-Christophe Berger Dancause, Ph.D. Student

  (co-direction with Pr Daniel Lafontaine, Université de Sherbrooke)

• David Pivin, Ph.D. Student

  (co-direction with Pr François Michaud, Université de Sherbrooke)

Development of a robotic platform for synthetic biology.

• Lachlan Bartrop, Ph.D. Student

  (co-direction with Pr Louis-Patrick Haraoui, Université de Sherbrooke)

• Anthony Duval, M.Sc. Student

Modification of the Mesoplasma florum genome.

• Ryphed Lagdani, M.Sc. Student

Whole-genome synthesis, refactoring and assembly.

• Amélie De Grandmaison, M.Sc. Student

Investigating synthetic lethality in Escherichia coli.

• Jonathan Boisvert, M.Sc. Student

Development of an inducible expression system and a mimetic antibody secretion platform in the near-minimal bacterium Mesoplasma florum.

• Jérémy Gagnon, M.Sc. Student

Construction of Mesoplasma florum synthetic genomes by cloning in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

• Arrianne Pascale Collette, M.Sc. Student

  (co-direction with Pr Jean-Philippe Côté, Université de Sherbrooke)

Undergraduate students

• Audrey Poirier
• Amélie Doucet
• Günes-Hélène Isitan (Diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées en Sciences)

Research assistants

• Frédéric Grenier, M.Sc.

• Dominick Matteau, Ph.D.

Alumni

• Vincent Quévillon, undergraduate intern
• Willem Laverlochere, undergraduate intern
• Vincent Baby, post-doctoral student
• Patricia Roy, M.Sc. student
• Catherine Chamberland, M.Sc. student
• Olivier Trahan, M.Sc. student
• Samuel Côté, undergraduate intern
• Antoine Pelletier, undergraduate intern
• Jean-Christophe Lachance, Ph.D. student
• Romain Durand, Ph.D. student
• Jean-François Rousseau, M.Sc. student
• Cynthia Lemieux, M.Sc. student
• Marie-Eve Pepin, M.Sc. student
• David Jordan, undergraduate intern
• Ariane Arsenault, Cégep de Sherbrooke intern
• Alejandra Matsuri Rojano Nisimura, undergraduate intern (Mitacs Globalink)
• Yogesh Lakhotia, undergraduate intern (Mitacs Globalink)
• Jimmy Blouin, undergraduate intern
• Samuel Jacques, undergraduate intern
• Lucas Leclerc, undergraduate intern
• Charles Coulombe, undergraduate intern
• Mélissa Arango-Giraldo, undergraduate intern
• Samuel Gauthier, undergraduate intern
• Syed Fazle Rouf, post-doctoral student
• Joëlle Brodeur, research assistant

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