Research interests
I am a member of the bioinformatics SEQUOIA group (LIFL, University Lille 1 and INRIA Lille - Nord Europe). My research interests are
  • genomic rearrangements
  • massively parallel algorithms for bioinformatics : www.biomanycores.org
  • pattern matching with position weight matrices (PWM/PSSM)
  • sequence comparison with similar factors (PhD thesis work, see the page dedicated to the transformaton distance)

Have a look at our group's software server to use the methods we develop in our team.

Publications

PhD Students

Starting from September, I will be the co-supervisor together with Mathieu Giraud of the PhD thesis of Tuan Tu Tran. We will work onto data structures and algorithms for manycores architectures.

Since 2006, I am the co-supervisor together with Pascal Touzet of the PhD thesis of Aude Darracq. We are working on the study of the rerrangement history of plant mitochondrial genomes at the intra-specific level.

I was the co-supervisor together with Hélène Touzet of the PhD thesis of Aude Liefooghe (2004-2008). The aim of the work was to design algorithms for locating efficiently transcription factor binding sites modelled with position weight matrices.

I was the co-supervisor together with Jean-Paul Delahaye of the PhD thesis of Martin Figeac (2002-2005). We studied how to compute genomic rearrangement scenarii introducing constraints on the reversals allowed. Martin is currently working at the Canceropôle Nord-Ouest center.

Teaching

I'm part of the computer science department at University of Lille 1. Courses in computer science (algorithms, JAVA) and bioinformatics. See this page (all documents in french).

Currently Algorithms and Data Structures and Software design in Java.

I'm also in charge of the MoCaD master's degree in computer science.

Contact
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Bât M3 - UFR IEEA
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex - France
Tel: +33 3 28 77 85 57
Fax: +33 3 28 77 85 37
E-Mail: jean-stephane.varre (AT) lifl (DOT) fr


INRIA Lille - Nord Europe
Parc scientifique de la haute borne
Park Plaza Bât A
40, Avenue Halley
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
Tel: +33 3 59 57 79 18
Fax: +33 3 59 57 78 50
E-Mail: jean-stephane.varre (AT) inria (DOT) fr
26/1/2010 Jean-Stéphane Varré