Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams

ITSNAP

• Title: Intelligent Techniques for Structure of Nucleic Acids and Proteins

• Inria principal investigator: Julie Bernauer

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (United States) - Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory - Henry van den Bedem

  • Stanford University (United States) - Computational Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Structural Biology - Michael Levitt

• Duration: 2012 - 2014

• See also: http://pages.saclay.inria.fr/julie.bernauer/EA_ITSNAP/

• The Itsnap Associated Team project is dedicated to the computational study of RNA 3D structure and interactions. By developing new molecular hierarchical models for knowledge-based and machine learning techniques, we can provide new insights on the biologically important structural features of RNA and its dynamics. This knowledge of RNA molecules is key in understanding and predicting the function of current and future therapeutic targets.

Participation In International Programs

J.Bernauer is coordinator with Pr. X. Huang at the Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology of a Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC) Procore project (2012-2013). The project is entitled Computational studies of conformational dynamics of the RNA-induced silencing complex and design of miRNAs to target oncogenes.

Adrien Rougny, an internship student supervised by C. Froidevaux in Amib , has successfully applied for the 2nd call of 2012 "Nii International Internship Program". In February 2013, he will start an internship at Nii for an Internship in Pr. Katsumi Inoue's group on the topic "Inference and Learning for Systems Biology and Network Dynamics".

M. Régnier and D. Sherman (Magnome-Inria ) participate to a joint project Carnage of France-Russia program.