Marie A. Brunet

Pr. Brunet qualified as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and later completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge under a prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship. She did her postdoc in Biochemistry and Functional Genomics at the University of Sherbrooke, before establishing her own research group at the University of Sherbrooke in 2021. With collaborator Pr Roucou, she develops and manages the OpenProt resource, the first proteogenomics resource endorsing a polycistronic annotation of eukaryotic genomes. Beyond OpenProt, her research focuses on non-annotated coding sequences in our genomes, notably within pseudogenes. She is part of the international Ribo-seq ORF consortium. She uses both fundamental and computational research methods to better explore biological data and understand human diseases. She holds a research chair in Multi-omics and Deep Learning, and a FRQS Junior 1 career grant recognizing her leadership at the intersection of health sciences and artificial intelligence.