Nouvelles
Automated SNP detection from a large collection of white spruce expressed sequences: contributing factors and approaches for the categorization of SNPs
Nathalie Pavy, Lee Parsons, Charles Paule, John MacKay and Jean Bousquet, 2006. Automated SNP detection from a large collection of white spruce expressed sequences: contributing factors and approaches for the categorization of SNPs. BMC Genomics, 7 (1): 174.
John MacKay and Jean Bousquet - Québec Award Winners
Each week, a jury composed of representatives of the news desks of the newspaper Le Soleil, the radio and the television of Radio-Canada in Quebec, names an award winner in order to underline an exceptional realization or a significant contribution to the life or the outreach of Quebec.
John MacKay and Jean Bousquet, codirectors of the Arborea research project, were honored the week of April 16, 2006.
- Radio Canada telejournal, April 19, 2006, 6 pm:
Interview with John MacKay and Jean Bousquet, co-directors of the Arborea research project, Lauréats de Québec.
- Interview of John MacKay, co-director of the Arborea research project, by Claude Bernatchez, April 17, 2006, Première Heure, on Radio Canada radio.
Genomics for molecular breeding in softwood trees
- Mark Cardwell, May 4, 2006. 'Sprucing up the forest'. The Gazette, p. B3.
- Véronique Morin, May-June, 2006. 'La forêt de l'avenir'. Découvrir, Vol. 27, no 3, p. 12-13.
- TVA, 'Québec À La Une' program, April 23, 2006, 2:30 pm:
Interview with Jean Bousquet and John MacKay, co-directors of the Arborea research project. - April 20, 2006. 'Arborea en ligne'. Au Fil des Événements.
- Radio Canada telejournal, April 19, 2006, 6 pm:
Interview with John MacKay and Jean Bousquet, co-directors of the Arborea research project, Lauréats de Québec. - Interview of John MacKay, co-director of the Arborea research project, by Claude Bernatchez, April 17, 2006, Première Heure, on Radio Canada radio.
- Pierre Asselin, April 16, 2006. 'John MacKay et Jean Bousquet - Chercheurs pour le défi. Les Lauréats de Québec'. Le Soleil, page B3.
- Crystel Jobin-Gagnon, April 11, 2006. '11 M$ pour faire pousser les arbres plus rapidement'. Le Journal de Québec, page 77.
- Pôle Québec Chaudière-Appalaches, April 10, 2006. Press release. '50.4 M$ à Génome Québec: une équipe de l'Université Laval bénéficie de l'investissement'.
- Radio Canada telejournal, April 10, 2006, 6 pm:
Interviews with John MacKay and Jean Bousquet, co-directors of the Arborea research project, and visit of Arborea's laboratories at Laval University. - RDI, April 10, 2006, 1:15 pm:
Interview with John MacKay, co-director of the Arborea research project. - Radio Canada telejournal April 10, 2006, 12 am:
Jean Bousquet, co-director of the Arborea research project, explains the nature of research which will be led. - Interview of Jean Bousquet by Claude Bernatchez, April 10, 2006, Première Heure, on Radio Canada radio: 'Bourse de Génome Québec'
- Jocelyne Richer, April 10, 2006. 'Québec investit 50 millions dans la biotechnologie'. Presse Canadienne. Published in La Presse Montréal (page A6), Le Journal de Québec (page 14), Le Soleil (page C7), La Tribune Sherbrooke.
Generation, annotation, analysis and database integration of 16,500 white spruce EST clusters.
ForestTreeDB is a collaboration between the Laval University Centre de Recherche en Biologie Forestiere, the Canadian Forest Service and the University of Minnesota Center for Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics.