Denis Bertrand obtained his PhD degree at the University Montpellier II, France, where he worked on the development of computational methods to study the evolution of tandem duplicated genes. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Montreal, Canada. Bertrand is currently a Staff Scientist at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), working in the lab of Niranjan Nagarajan, Associate Director and Senior Group Leader at GIS. His research focuses on the development of tools applied to genomic data, including genome assembly methods for single and metagenomes, and integrative approaches for the inference of cancer driver genes.
