Speakers

Guillaume Bourque is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill University and the Director of Bioinformatics at the McGill University & Genome Quebec Innovation Center. He also heads the Canadian Center for Computational Genomics (C3G) and the Epigenomics Data Coordination Center at McGill, a project that oversees data collection and processing for a large initiative associated with the International Human Epigenome Consoritum (IHEC).

During his PhD, he worked on genome rearrangements in evolution with Pavel Pevzner at the University of Southern California. From 2004 to 2010, he worked at the Genome Institute of Singapore, where he was a Senior Group Leader and the Associate Director of Computational & Mathematical Biology. His research interests are in comparative and functional genomics with a special emphasis on understanding the role of transposable elements in the evolution of mammalian gene regulation.