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Congratulations to Leo Ackermann, an Inria PhD student in the Genscale research team, who won the Best Poster Award at RECOMB 2026, the 30th annual international conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 26 to 29 May 2026. This award recognises the poster entitled “Subquadratic storage of pairwise distance matrices of large microbial collections” [..]

Congratulations to Adel Aly who won the Best Demo Award at the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2026) for his work on musical score database querying. His demonstration, entitled "Where Graphs Meet Fuzzy Logic — A DBMS-Centered Engine for Polyphonic Music Matching in Score Databases", was co-authored with Oliver Pivert and Virginie Thion, all three of whom are [..]

The Best Paper Award was presented to Adel Aly (PhD student in the Shaman team in Lannion) and his thesis supervisors Oliver Pivert and Virginie Thion * at the 19th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2025). They were recognized for their article entitled “A Flexible Framework for Transposition-Aware Querying of a Musical Score Database.” It proposes a new [..]

Storing our data on DNA To be discovered, a new way of storing information on DNA molecules! written by Dominique Lavenier, CNRS research director and researcher in the Genscale research team. La production mondiale de données croît à un rythme exponentiel. Elle double tous les 3 ans. Cette masse d’informations est stockée dans des « data centers », d’immenses usines numériques extrêmement [..]

Détecter les pannes sur une voiture ou sur une chaîne de production et savoir comment agir pour ne plus en avoir ? C’est le défi que cherche à relever cette thèse Cifre 1 encadrée par Élisa Fromont, professeure à l'Université de Rennes et membre de l'équipe de recherche Lacodam, réalisée en collaboration avec Stellantis (anciennement Groupe PSA). Élisa Fromont a encadré 12 thèses Cifre depuis 2011 [..]

Co-supervised by Emmanuelle Becker (Professor at the University of Rennes, DYLISS team) and Florence Gondret (INRAe PEGASE), Camille Juigné is this year's recipient of the new Science Ouverte thesis prize, awarded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR). Camille Juigné defended her thesis in 2023 at the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers in the field of genetics, genomics and [..]

Congratulations Roland! Congratulations to Roland Faure (PhD student at the University of Rennes) and Tam Khac Minh Truong (former intern) from the Genscale team, winners of the best student paper prize at the BIOINFORMATICS 2024 conference held in Rome at the end of February. The prize was awarded for their paper "Assembling close strains in metagenome assemblies using discrete optimization", co [..]

Within the framework of the synchronized recruitment campaign 2024 for junior or senior faculty members, IRISA is a host laboratory for around twenty positions, in association with partner training components. Consult the page