5770 Av. Glenarden Montréal, H4W 2A4
514 912 1503 http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanaelweill
NATHANAEL WEILL, PHD
SKILLS • DATA ANALYSIS / DATA MODELING: ! Descriptive statistics. ! Exploratory Data Analysis.
Self Organized Map, PCA, hierarchical clustering, graph analysis, community detection.
! Confirmatory data Analysis. F/T-‐test, K-‐S test, chi-‐squared test, Shapiro–Wilk test, Fisher-‐test, Wilcoxon-‐test.
! Predictive Analysis. Supervised learning (Naïve Bayesian, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Neuronal Network, AdaBoost, Conjonctive Rules), DeNovo Modeling.
! Dataset Design. Data curation, variable/observation selection, data transformation.
! Software. My own implementations, R, WEKA, libSVM.
! Performance assessment: Cross-‐Validation, LOO, Balanced Accuracy, ROC curve, sensitivity-‐specificity, precision-‐recall, bootstrapping.
• OPTIMIZATION (MINIMIZATION): Matching Algorithms, Genetic Algorithm, PSO, Multi-‐Objective Optimization.
• CODING: Expert: Java, Python, Perl. Good level: C++, SQL, Bash, PHP. Knowledge: CUDA(GPU), tcl/tk.
• ENVIRONMENTS: Linux, Mac, Windows.
FIELDS OF APPLICATION:
• DRUG DESIGN: Challenge: To create the most accurate model to predict active molecules and side effects.[1-‐3] Application to Oxytocin Receptor. [4]
• CHEMISTRY: Challenge: To use a genetic algorithm to optimize geometries of
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molecule to accommodate a targeted protein.[5-‐8] Application to screening of library of molecules.[9]
Challenge: To use the same algorithm to predict the catalyst for given asymmetric reactions.[10]
• COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY: Challenge: To create a model that predicts the outcome of many to many biological molecule interactions. Application to the design of new regulators of gene expression.[11]
EXPERIENCE RESEARCH POSITION, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL (IRIC)
2011-‐present My researches are focused on the reprogramation of cancer cells using microRNAs.
RESEARCH POSITION
2009-‐2011 I applied a knowledge based system tu design new active molecules for Parkinson disease.
EDUCATION UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG, PHD 2006-‐2009
Topic: pharmaceutical Science. I applied learning machine technics to predict impact of active molecules on proteins (side effects) and to discover new drugs for a given target.
UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOUR, MSC 2004-‐2006
Structural Genomics and Bioinformatics with honors
UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOUR, BSC 2001-‐2004
Biology, Informatics, Bioinformatics with honors
COMMUNICATION PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
[1] Weill N, Rognan D. Development and Validation of a Novel Protein-‐Ligand Fingerprint To Mine Chemogenomic Space: Application to G Protein-‐Coupled Receptors and Their Ligands. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2009; 49: 1049-‐1062.
[2] Weill N, Rognan D. Alignment-‐Free Ultra-‐High-‐Throughput Comparison of Druggable Protein-‐Ligand Binding Sites. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2010; 50: 123-‐135.
[3] Weill N. Chemogenomic Approaches for the Exploration of GPCR Space. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2011; 11: 1944-‐1955.
[4] Weill N, Valencia C, Gioria S, Villa P, Hibert M, Rognan D. Identification of Nonpeptide Oxytocin Receptor Ligands by Receptor-‐Ligand Fingerprint Similarity Search. Molecular Informatics, 2011; 30: 521-‐526.
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[5] Weill N, Therrien E, Moitessier N. Does considering water molecules and protein flexibility matter in structure based virtual screening? Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2011; 242.
[6] Therrien E, Englebienne P, Arrowsmith AG, Mendoza-‐Sanchez R, Corbeil CR, Weill N, Campagna-‐Slater V, Moitessier N. Integrating Medicinal Chemistry, Organic/Combinatorial Chemistry, and Computational Chemistry for the Discovery of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators with FORECASTER, a Novel Platform for Drug Discovery. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2012; 52: 210-‐224.
[7] Campagna-‐Slater V, Therrien E, Weill N, Moitessier N. Methods for Docking Small Molecules to Macromolecules: A User's Perspective. 2. Applications. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2014; 20: 3360-‐3372.
[8] Weill N, Therrien E, Campagna-‐Slater V, Moitessier N. Methods for Docking Small Molecules to Macromolecules: A User's Perspective. 1. The Theory. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2014; 20: 3338-‐3359.
[9] Castor KJ, Mancini J, Fakhoury J, Weill N, Kieltyka R, Englebienne P, Avakyan N, Mittermaier A, Autexier C, Moitessier N, Sleiman HF. Platinum(II) Phenanthroimidazoles for Targeting Telomeric G-‐Quadruplexes. Chemmedchem, 2012; 7: 85-‐94.
[10] Weill N, Corbeil CR, De Schutter JW, Moitessier N. Toward a Computational Tool Predicting the Stereochemical Outcome of Asymmetric Reactions: Development of the Molecular Mechanics-‐Based Program ACE and Application to Asymmetric Epoxidation Reactions. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2011; 32: 2878-‐2889.
[11] N. Weill, V. Lisi, N. Scott, S. Leong, Major F. MicroRNA interactions obey stable matching rules and modulate post-‐transcription the regulation of gene expression individually and collectively., in preparation.
AWARDS MRT grant for PhD funding Award of the best Oral Communication of the campus. GRASP training program Award. CIHR Fellowship. (ranked: top 6.5%)
LANGUAGES FRENCH, ENGLISH