Postdoc
NIEHS
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States
I completed my Ph.D in Biochemistry from Univsersity of Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Pascale Legault where I studied RNA-Protein interactions and enzymology in the context of micro-RNA biogenesis. I then started a post-doctoral fellowship in Cryo-EM at NIEHS/NIH under the supervision of Dr. Mario Borgnia. There, I learned about programming and began working on method development for Cryo-EM. In the past 3 years, I have developped a method called BISECT to accelerate Cryo-eletron tomography data acquisition by an order of magnitude. Then, I pursued a project to automate specimen screening, the main bottleneck in the obtention of high-quality specimens for Cryo-EM. The resulting method called SmartScope introduces a workflow systematic automated specimen evaluation in CryoEM using deep-learning ofbject detection and classification algorithms as well as a web server for accessing the results and interacting with the microscope. These new methods aim at increasing efficiency and lowering the barrier of access to Cryo-EM.
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Expanding the reach of cryo-EM through open design robotics and remote screening.
Thursday, July 27, 2023
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM US CST