Hello world 👋

About me 💻🤓

I am a passionate bioinformatician who loves working with various -omics data (genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and interactomes) to investigate the molecular mechanisms behind complex traits, specifically drug-response phenotypes, aging, and age-associated diseases.

Current position

• Bioinformatician & Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Université Paris Cité - CNRS UMR7592 / Institut Jacques Monod (Paris, FRANCE)
• Project in collaboration with
  • Michael Rera, PhD (Website) [CNRS] (PI/Advisor)
  • Marc Santolini, PhD (Website) [Learning Planet Institute] (Network Science Collaborator)

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Education

• PhD candidate in Bioinformatics @ Université de Montréal (Montréal, CANADA)
• Supervision by
  • Adrian Serohijos, PhD (Website) [Université de Montréal]
  • Julie Hussin, PhD (Website) [Université de Montréal]

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Expertise and interests

$\bullet$ Bioinformatics $\bullet$ Computational Systems Biology $\bullet$ Evolutionary Biology $\bullet$ Population Genetics $\bullet$ Statistical Genetics

$\bullet$ Complex traits $\bullet$ Omics-data science $\bullet$ Biological Networks $\bullet$ GWAS $\bullet$ QTL mapping $\bullet$ Biology of Aging $\bullet$ Evolution of Aging
$\bullet$ Conventional (S. cerevisiae, D. melanogaster, D. renio, M. musculus) and non conventional (H. glaber) model organisms

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Latest publications

• Flaminia Zane, Hayet Bouzid, Sofia Sosa Marmol, Mira Brazane, Savandara Besse, Julia Lisa Molina, Céline Cansell, Fanny Aprahamian, Sylvère Durand, Jessica Ayache, Christophe Antoniewski, Michael Rera, Smurfness-based two-phase model of ageing helps deconvolve the ageing transcriptional signature, Soon published in Aging Cell, 2023, (Code)

• Savandara Besse, Raphaël Poujol, Julie Hussin, Comparative study of protein aggregation propensity and mutation tolerance between naked mole-rat and mouse, Published in Genome Biology and Evolution, 2022, evac057 (Code)

• Leo Blondel, Savandara Besse, Emily Rivard, Guillem Ylla, Cassandra Extavour, Evolution of a cytoplasmic determinant: evidence for the biochemical basis of functional evolution of the novel germ line regulator oskar, Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2021, msab284 (Code)

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Updates

2025

• July, 8th-11th: I'll be at JOBIM 2025 in Bordeaux! 🍷

Say Hi if you see me there 😊

• March, 19th-23rd: I attended GSA Dros25 in San Diego! 🌴

My poster was about Studying Aging with Smurf flies using Gene Network-based Approaches

• Early January: 2nd PostDoc in Paris 🪰👨🏽‍💻

I got a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship from FRM, still playing with Smurf flies, Omics, and Networks to understand Aging

2024

• June, 24th-28th: I was at JOBIM 2024 Toulouse! 🌹

I helped JeBIF (The Young French Bioinformatians) as a volunteer for their hackathon on Method reproducibility

2023

• Mid-September: 1st PostDoc in Paris 🪰👨🏽‍💻

Playing with Smurf flies, Omics, and Networks to understand aging

• September, 5th: PhD Defended! 🎉

5-year journey to become a Bioinformatician with a PhD diploma