Yoann DUFRESNE

Yoann DUFRESNE serves as a Lecturer at ESPRIT, Scientific City, affiliated with the Bonsai research team. His academic role integrates computational methods with biological research, focusing on algorithmic solutions for complex biochemical analysis.

Education:

• Doctoral research initiated October 1, 2013 at ESPRIT, Scientific City under Maude Pupin's supervision
• Thesis: "Algorithm for the automatic annotation of non-ribosomal peptides"

Research Interests:
Dr. DUFRESNE specializes in bioinformatics algorithm development for non-ribosomal peptide annotation—a critical process in pharmaceutical discovery. His work bridges computer science and microbial biochemistry, targeting automation of molecular analysis workflows. Key focus areas include computational pattern recognition in secondary metabolites and scalable annotation frameworks for natural product databases.

He maintains active collaboration with the Bonsai research team, which concentrates on computational approaches to biological system modeling and drug discovery pipelines.