Sébastien Rodrigue

Postdoctoral Associate
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Biology
MIT 48-208
15 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 253-8686, (617) 258-7009 (fax)
Email: s_rod at mit.edu

Education:

2006 Ph.D. Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
2001 B.Sc. Biologie-Biotechnologies, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

Selected publications:

S. Rodrigue, J. Brodeur, A. Gervais, P.-É. Jacques, R. Brzezinski & L. Gaudreau. 2006.
Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis σ factor target genes using genome-wide location assays.
Under review.

P.-É. Jacques, S. Rodrigue, L. Gaudreau, J. Goulet & R. Brzezinski. 2006.
Detection of Prokaryotic Promoters from the Genomic Distribution of hexanucleotide pairs.
BMC Bioinformatics, in press.

S. Rodrigue, R. Provvedi, P.-É. Jacques, L. Gaudreau & R. Manganelli. 2006.
The σ factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
FEMS microbiology reviews, in press.

E. Dainese*, S. Rodrigue*, G. Delogu, R. Provvedi, L. Laflamme, R. Brzezinski, G. Fadda, I. Smith, L. Gaudreau, G. Palù & R. Manganelli. 2006.
Posttranslational regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Extracytoplasmic-function sigma factor σ L and roles in virulence and in global regulation of gene expression.
Infection and Immunity. 74:2457-2461.
*these authors contributed equally to this work.

J.-F. Jacques*, S. Rodrigue*,1, R. Brzezinski & L. Gaudreau. 2005.
A recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro transcription system.
FEMS microbiology letters. 255:140-147.
*these authors contributed equally to this work.
1 corresponding author.

R. Manganelli, R. Provvedi, S. Rodrigue, J. Beaucher, L. Gaudreau & I. Smith. 2004.
σ factors and global gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Journal of Bacteriology. 186:895-902.

J. Beaucher, S. Rodrigue, P.-É. Jacques, I. Smith, R. Brzezinski & L. Gaudreau. 2002.
Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis anti-σ factor antagonists control σF activity by distinct mechanisms.
Molecular Microbiology. 45:1527-1540.