Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

Ghania Khensous from the University of Sciences and Technologies in Oman visited the team to develop a tabu-based search algorithm for flexible protein-ligand docking, under the supervision of Bernard Maigret.

Patricia Alves from the University of Brasilia is visiting the team to carry out drug repositioning on several target fungus proteins under the supervision of Bernard Maigret.

Internships

Agnibha Chandra from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology visited the team to optimize a force-field for ssRNA-protein docking, under the supervision of Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne.

Ismail El Fadli from the Mohammed V University of Rabat visited the team to adapt our RNA-protein docking method to DNA-protein systems, under the supervision of Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne.

Aichata Niang from the University of Paris Diderot visited the team to to apply modeling and virtual screening of a galactosyl-transferase enzyme in order to find new inhibitors, under the supervision of Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne.

Rohit Roy from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur visited the team in order to include geometric constrains in our docking algorithm for docking RNA loops, under the supervision of Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne.

Giammarco Mastronardi from the University of Lorraine visited the team to carry out a virtual screening study of small-molecule inhibitors of a bacterial polyketide synthase module, under the supervision of Bernard Maigret and David Ritchie.

Wissem Inoubli from the University of Tunis El Manar visited the team to work on his PhD thesis on distributed graph processing under the supervision of Sabeur Aridhi.

Damien Vantourout from the University of Lorraine visited the team to develop a tool for protein function annotation using semantic protein networks and deep neural networks under the supervision of Sabeur Aridhi.

Xavier Farchetto from the University of Lorraine visited the team to work on the segmentation of images in Crohn’s disease under the supervision of Malika Smaïl-Tabbone and Chedy Raissy (Orpailleur team).

Maxime Guyot from the University of Lorraine (Telecom Nancy stage 2A) visited the team to perform statistical analyses on KBDock and to develop a scoring function for protein-protein interaction subgraphs extracted from a knowledge graph database.