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Brice Letcher - CV

Brice Letcher

Researcher in Evolutionary and Computational Biology

Summary

Welcome! I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell (LBMC) in Lyon, France.

Mini-bio

After training in biology and bioinformatics [...]

Research interests

  • Genome Evolution
  • Evolution of cellular processes
  • Genome biology
  • Host-pathogen interactions

Scientific Output

Publications

Please see my google scholar page for the complete and up-to-date list.

Software

TODO

Conferences

2024 Ver Midi XXV - Lyon, France; ALPHY 2024 - Montpellier, France; ICTE 2024 - Saint Malo, France

2023 ISMB/ECCB 2023 - Lyon, France; 3Sex - Jacques Monod Conference - Roscoff, France; ALPHY 2023 - Grenoble, France

Invited Seminars

2024 BIGRE Seminar - TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France; MalariaGEN Journal Club - MalariaGEN Consortium, Online

2023 LBBE Lab Seminar - LBBE, Lyon, France

Visits

2024 Team Bétermier - I2BC, Paris, France; Team Blaxter - Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

Education

2018-2022 PhD in Bioinformatics - University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI, UK

2016-2018 Msc Bioinformatics - University of Lyon 1, France.

2012-2016 Bsc Biology (Honours Evolutionary Biology) - University Of Edinburgh, UK.

Scientific Service

Teaching

2023- Practicals in next generation sequencing, for Masters students at ENS de Lyon, France.

2023 Comparative Genomics, for Masters students at ENS de Lyon, France.

2022 Introduction to High-Performance Computing, for incoming PhD students at EMBL-EBI, UK.

2021 Why and how to develop open-source software, Online Webinar available to all at EMBL-EBI, UK.

2019 Using Workflow Management Systems - Snakemake, for incoming PhD students at EMBL-EBI, UK.

Reviewing

2022- Microbial Genomics

2022- Bioinformatics

2023- Journal Of Open Source Software

2023- Genome Biology

2023- Bioinformatics Advances

Communities

2023- Chair & Organiser of a monthly Seminar Series on Molecular Evolution at ENS de Lyon, France

2024- Elected Board member on the Scientific Council of the LBMC Laboratory - as representative for postdocs

2023 Jury member for evaluating Msc Bioinformatics end-of-year internships for University of Lyon 1, France

2020 Organiser of the 2020 EMBL-EBI/Sanger/Cambridge University eSCAMPS Conference

Supervision

2024 João Ribeiro, third-year Bsc Bioinformatics, Setubal Polytechnic University, Portugal

Guilhem Biossé, first-year Msc Bioinformatics, Université Montpellier, France

Outreach

TODO

Awards

Successes

2023 Best Talk award at ISMB/ECCB 2023 Conference - Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics Section ($200)

2022 Best Talk award at JOBIM Conference (400€)

2018-2022 Postgraduate fellowship - full tuition at University of Cambridge

2018 Best student in Msc Bioinformatics - University of Lyon 1

2016 Ashworth Medal for best student in Evolutionary Biology - University of Edinburgh (£400)

2012-2016 Undergraduate fellowship - full tuition at University of Edinburgh

Unsuccesses

2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellowship - Rejected after written report (grade: 91.8%)

2023 EMBO Postdoc Fellowship - Rejected after oral interview