Alain Sewer
biology   -   Computational Biology - Bioinformatics
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Degree M.D./Ph.D.
Occupation post-doc
Current institution Université de Lausanne
Address Alain Sewer
Rue du Bugnon 27
1005 Lausanne
Switzerland
ScienXe address http://alainsewer.scienxe.org
Email
Phone ++41 21 692 5463
Fax ++41 21 692 5455

Personal informations

name Alain Sewer
born 1972-09-18
birthplace Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
citizenship Swiss

Languages

speaking level reading level
french Mother tongue Mother tongue
english Excellent Excellent
german Excellent Excellent
italian Good Good

Degrees

1998-2002 IRRMA Lausanne / Université de Neuchâtel
Ph. D. in Numerical and Theoretical Physics
1991-1996 ETH Zürich
Master in Theoretical Physics
1985-1991 Lycée-Collège des Creusets, Sion
Maturité C scientifique

Employment

2006-2008 Département de Génétique Médicale, Université de Lausanne
Post-doc
2004-2006 Biozentrum der Universität Basel
Post-doc
2003 International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS/SISSA), Trieste, Italy
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) junior post-doc
1998-2002 Institut Romand de Recherches en Physique des Matériaux (IRRMA), Lausanne, and Université de Neuchâtel
Ph. D. candidate
1996-1997 ETH Zürich
Teaching assistant
1996-1997 ABB Corporate Research, Baden-Dättwil
Trainee

Publications

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2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 |

1.  Marek's disease virus type 2 (MDV-2)-encoded microRNAs show no sequence conservation with those encoded by MDV-1.
   Yao Y, Zhao Y, Xu H, Smith LP, Lawrie CH, Sewer A, Zavolan M, Nair V.
   J Virol. 2007 Jul;81(13):7164-70.     [database]  
2.  A mammalian microRNA expression atlas based on small RNA library sequencing
   Landgraf P, Rusu M, Sheridan R, Sewer A, Iovino N, Aravin A, Pfeffer S, Rice A, Kamphorst AO, Landthaler M, Lin C, Socci ND, Hermida L, Fulci V, Chiaretti S, Foà R, Schliwka J, Fuchs U, Novosel A, Müller RU, Schermer B, Bissels U, Inman J, Phan Q, Chien M, Weir DB, Choksi R, De Vita G, Frezzetti D, Trompeter HI, Hornung V, Teng G, Hartmann G, Palkovits M, Di Lauro R, Wernet P, Macino G, Rogler CE, Nagle JW, Ju J, Papavasiliou FN, Benzing T, Lichter P, Tam W, Brownstein MJ, Bosio A, Borkhardt A, Russo JJ, Sander C, Zavolan M, Tuschl T.
   Cell. 2007 Jun 29;129(7):1401-14     [database]  
3.  Effects of Dicer and Argonaute down-regulation on mRNA levels in human HEK293 cells.
   Schmitter D, Filkowski J, Sewer A, Pillai RS, Oakeley EJ, Zavolan M, Svoboda P, Filipowicz W.
   Nucleic Acids Res. 2006;34(17):4801-15.     [database]  
4.  Identification of clustered microRNAs using an ab initio prediction method.
   Alain Sewer, Nicodème Paul, Pablo Landgraf, Alexei Aravin, Sébastien Pfeffer, Michael J Brownstein, Thomas Tuschl, Erik van Nimwegen, Mihaela Zavolan
   BMC bioinformatics [electronic resource], 6, 267     [database]  
5.  Identification of microRNAs of the herpesvirus family.
   Sébastien Pfeffer, Alain Sewer, Mariana Lagos-Quintana, Robert Sheridan, Chris Sander, Friedrich A Grässer, Linda F van Dyk, C Kiong Ho, Stewart Shuman, Minchen Chien, James J Russo, Jingyue Ju, Glenn Randall, Brett D Lindenbach, Charles M Rice, Viviana Simon, David D Ho, Mihaela Zavolan, Thomas Tuschl
   Nature Methods, 2 (4), 269-76     [database]  
6.  Pairing fluctuations in high temperature superconductors.
   H. Beck, Ph. Curty, A. Sewer, N. Andrenacci, S. Sharapov.
   Ukrainian J. Phys. 48 (2003) pp.829-836.    
7.  Model study of anomalous properties of short coherence length superconductors
   Alain Sewer
8.  Quantum Monte Carlo study of the 3D attractive Hubbard model
   A. Sewer, X. Zotos, H. Beck
   Phys. Rev. B 66, 140504 (2002)     [cond-mat/0204053]  
9.  Thermodynamic properties of the attractive Hubbard model
   Alain Sewer, Hans Beck
   Phys. Rev. B 64, 224524 (2001)     [database]  
10.  Fluctuating diamagnetism in underdoped high temperature superconductors
   Alain Sewer, Hans Beck
   Phys. Rev. B 64, 014510 (2001)     [cond-mat/0104193]  
11.  Orbital magnetic susceptibility of the attractive Hubbard model
   Alain Sewer, Hans Beck and Xenophon Zotos
   Physica C: Superconductivity, Volumes 317-318, May 1999, Pages 475-478     [database]  

Projects

1. (A) Effects of microRNA-mediated regulation at the transcriptome level
2. (B) Analysis of large-scale microRNA expression data
3. (C) Computational predictions of novel animal microRNA genes
4. (D) Modeling disulfide bonds in proteins