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.

• Alexandre Desroches, Ph.D.

  (co-direction with Immune Biosolutions)

Graduate students

• Antoine Levenes, Ph.D. Student

Characterization of plasmid TP114 regulation network.

• 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.

• 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)

• Willem Laverlochère, M.Sc. Student

Construction of Mesoplasma florum synthetic genomes.

• Audrey Poirier, M.Sc. Student

Characterization and modification of the bacteriophage M13.

• Anthony Duval, M.Sc. Student

Modification of the Mesoplasma florum genome.

• 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.

• Mathias Martin Silva, M.Sc. Student

  (co-direction with Pr Pierre-Étienne Jacques, Université de Sherbrooke)

Mapping alleviating genetic relationships in Escherichia coli.

• Amélie Doucet, M.Sc. Student

Generation and characterization of synthetic promoter elements in bacteria 

Undergraduate students

• David Jaramillo Salazar

Research assistants

• Frédéric Grenier, M.Sc.

• Dominick Matteau, Ph.D.

Alumni

• Éliane Côté, undergraduate intern
• Gabriel Bertand, undergraduate intern
• Günes-Hélène Isitan, invited student
• Arianne Pascale Collette, M.Sc. student
• Nancy Allard, Ph.D. and post-doctoral student
• Kevin Neil, Ph.D. and post-doctoral student
• Jean-Christophe Berger Dancause, Ph.D. student
• Ryphed Lagdani, M.Sc. student
• Vincent Quévillon, undergraduate intern
• Vincent Baby, Ph.D. and 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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