Contact :
| Email : thomas.lacroix@jouy.inra.fr Mailing address : INRA - Unité MaIAGE Bâtiment 233 Domaine de Vilvert 78352 JOUY-EN-JOSAS CEDEX Phone : +33 (0)1 34 65 28 85 Secretariat : +33 (0)1 34 65 28 86 |
Ongoing research projects :
- Insyght : http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/Insyght/
Past research projects :
- Cocitations : http://bibliome.jouy.inra.fr/cocitations/
- Portail IGO : http://migale.jouy.inra.fr/igo/
- CompaGB : http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/CompaGB/
Research interests :
Bioinformatics, comparative genomique
Publications as 1st author :
- Lacroix T., Thérond S., [al.], Gibrat J.F. (2015) Synchronized navigation and comparative analyses across Ensembl complete bacterial genomes with INSYGHT. Bioinformatics ; pii:btv689
- Lacroix T., Loux V., [al.], Gibrat J.F. (2014) Insyght: navigating amongst abundant homologues, syntenies and gene functional annotations in bacteria, it's that symbol! Nucleic Acids Res ; 42(21)
- Lacroix T., Loux V., Gendrault A., Gibrat J.F., Chiapello H. (2011) CompaGB: An open framework for genome browsers comparison. BMC Res Notes ; 4:133.
Other publications :
- Ambroset C., et al. (2016) New Insights into the Classification and Integration Specificity of Streptococcus ICE through Extensive Genome Exploration. Front. Microbiol.
- Siddiqui A., et al. (2008) Molecular responses of the Ts65Dn and Ts1Cje mouse models of Down syndrome to the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Genes Brain Behav. ; 7(7): 810–820.
- Nguyen C., Thaicharoen S., Lacroix T., Gardiner K., and Cios K. (2007) A comprehensive Human Chromosome 21 Database. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 26-2, 86-93.
Background :
- Nov 2007 - today : bioinformatician, MaIAGE unit: Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, from Genomes to the Environment, INRA, Jouy en Josas, France ; Supervisors : V. LOUX and Dr J-F. GIBRAT.
- Feb 2005 - Oct 2007 : bioinformatician (50%) / molecular biologist (50%), University of Colorado–Health Science Center, Denver, CO, USA ; Supervisors : Dr K. GARDINER.
- Apr 2004 - Oct 2004 : bioinformatics (internship), unit Bioinformatics and Proteins, Applied Biosystems / Celera Genomics, San Francisco, Californie, USA ; Supervisors : Dr Huaiyu MI and Dr Paul THOMAS.
- Mar 2003 - Aug 2003 : molecular biologist (internship), unit Genes Development and Expression, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Ecosse, UK ; Supervisors : Dr Alison THOMSON and Dr Jim McWHIR.
- Summer 2001 and 2002 : Laboratory technician, anatomopathology (1 month in 2001) and bacteriology (1 month ½ in 2002), J.MINJOZ hospital, Besançon, France.
- Dec 2000 - Mar 2001 : molecular biologist (internship), molecular biology lab, Science University, Besançon, France ; Supervisors : Dr Jean-luc SCHLICK and Dr Philippe Dulieu.
Skills:
- Bioinformatics : public database (Swiss-Prot, NCBI, EMBL, PDB, GO, HPRD, KEGG,...), Genome Browsers (Gbrowse, Ensembl, Artemis, MuGeN, UCSC...), sequences alignment (BLAST, ClustalW), Galaxy, HMM profiles (HMMer), molecular viewers (Rasmol, SWISS-PDBViewer), structural alignement (CE), phylogenetics analysis (PHYLIP).
- Programming : object oriented programming (Java, Perl), web application (Ajax, GWT, CSS, HTML5, XML, HTML), relational database (SQL).
- Admin : virtual machine ubuntu 14.04, postgresql, tomcat, etc.
- Language : French, English
- Others : Tutorial videos, tennis