Welcome to the Blais lab!
Our lab studies the Six family of transcription factors and the critical role its members play in myogenic differentiation. We are interested in understanding, at the molecular level, the mode of action of these transcription factors, and how they might cooperate with other transcription factors involved in skeletal myogenesis. To this end, we use functional genomic approaches such as ChIP-seq, RNA interference, expression profiling and bioinformatic analyses.
We are members of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, OISB
Background
B.Sc. in Biochemistry
1996, Université de Montréal
Ph.D. in molecular biology
2003, Université Laval (Claude Labrie, advisor)
Post-doctoral training in genomics
2007, New York University (Brian Dynlacht, advisor)
