Benoît Leblanc

Dr. Benoît Leblanc serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Biology at Université de Sherbrooke, leveraging extensive research experience from postdoctoral fellowships at EMBL Heidelberg, Université Laval, and NIH Bethesda to inform his teaching in molecular and cellular biology.

His educational trajectory includes:

• B.Sc. in Biology, Université du Québec à Rimouski (1986)
• Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Université Laval (1993)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL Heidelberg (1993-1995)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Laval (1995-1996)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH Bethesda (1996-2001)

Research expertise centers on DNA-protein interactions, chromatin structure, and ribosomal DNA organization, with methodological contributions to DNAse I footprinting and DNA supercoiling analysis. His work bridges biochemical techniques and genomic applications, emphasizing practical laboratory protocols for studying nucleic acid dynamics.

Scholarly output from 2009-2015 features book chapters in Methods in Molecular Biology and co-edited volumes on DNA-protein interaction protocols, demonstrating consistent focus on methodological rigor rather than primary research articles in recent years.

As a contract lecturer, his primary commitment is undergraduate and graduate instruction within the Department of Biology. No current research grants, laboratory facilities, or student supervision roles are documented, though his historical research background provides substantial depth for teaching advanced molecular techniques.