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He has been working on a number of projects including a study of the contribution of transposable elements to primate-specific regulatory regions. He is now Assistant Professor at Sherbrooke University.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_social_media_follow link_shape=&#8221;rounded_rectangle&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; follow_button=&#8221;off&#8221;] [et_pb_social_media_follow_network url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.usherbrooke.ca\/biologie\/personnel\/professeurs\/biologie-moleculaire-et-cellulaire\/pierre-etienne-jacques\/&#8221; skype_action=&#8221;call&#8221; bg_color=&#8221;#d62834&#8243;] [\/et_pb_social_media_follow_network] [\/et_pb_social_media_follow][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_4&#8243;][et_pb_image admin_label=&#8221;Xing&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/computationalgenomics.ca\/BourqueLab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/xingyi.jpg&#8221; animation=&#8221;off&#8221; show_in_lightbox=&#8221;off&#8221; url_new_window=&#8221;off&#8221; use_overlay=&#8221;off&#8221; sticky=&#8221;off&#8221; align=&#8221;left&#8221; force_fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; always_center_on_mobile=&#8221;on&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; \/][et_pb_text background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Xing Yi Woo<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xing Yi joined the group in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after obtaining my PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Illinois and National University of Singapore. Previously, her research focused on multiscale modeling of pharmaceutical processes. She was working on making copy number predictions of cancer and normal genomes based on paired-end sequence data, and making comparisons with array-CGH and SNP-array data. 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