Since january 2007, I am associate professor in the Department of Mathematics of Simon Fraser University. From June 2001 to July 2007, I was professor in the Computer Science Department of Université du Québec à Montréal.

I am a member of the following labs and organisms: SFU Discrete Mathematics Group, Bioinformatics Training Program for Health Research (associate faculty), Comparative Genomics Laboratory (CGL, UQAM), Laboratoire de Combinatoire et Informatique Mathématiques (LaCIM, UQAM).

Research interests and funding. (See following link)
My current research deals primarily with mathematical and computational questions arising from comparative genomics. This includes problems on genome rearrangements, gene families evolution, and computational analysis of RNA. Finally, I still do occasionally research in enumerative combinatorics and algorithms design.
Currently, my research is funded by grants from NSERC and SFU. Previously, I did get funding from NSERC, NATEQ, UQAM and GénomeQuébec, Coopération Franco-Québecoise.

Teaching.
Depending on the sessions, I am teaching all sorts of courses, mostly in discrete mathematics, programming, theoretical computer science and bioinformatics. Currently (Spring 2009) I teach MACM202 (Mathematical Modeling and Computation).

Students.
List of current and past students.
If you are interested in the application of mathematical and computational methods in biology, and that you consider doing some research in this field, either at the undergraduate level or in the course of graduate studies, I will be happy to discuss with you.
See also PIMS International Graduate Training Centre (IGTC) in Mathematical Biology.

Softwares.

• RNA StrAT, our RNA Structure Analysis Toolkit. ISMB 2008 poster.
• FragANCHOR, a machine-learning tool for the prediction of GPI-anchored protein sequences. Paper.

Selected recent papers.

• An Efficient Method for Exploring the Space of Gene Tree/Species Tree Reconciliations in a Probabilistic Framework. LIRMM technical report RR-10002, 2010.
• Computation of perfect DCJ rearrangement scenarios with linear and circular chromosomes has been published in Journal of Computational Biology.
• Space of Gene/Species Trees Reconciliations and Parsimonious Models has been published in Journal of Computational Biology.
• New perspectives on gene family evolution: losses in reconciliation and a link with supertrees has been published in the proceedings of RECOMB 2009.

Conferences, seminars and visits.