Talks

You can find below a list of talks I (or one of my co-authors) have given the last years, sorted in decreasing chronological order or by topics.



International conferences


  • M. Pacault, C. Verebi, M. Champion, L. Orhant, A. Perrier, C. FĂ©rec, T. Bienvenu, R. Daveau and J. Nectoux. Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis of monogenic diseases by enhanced relative haplotype dosage analysis. European Human Genetics Conference (ESHG), Vienna, Austria (2022).

  • M. Champion, J. Chiquet, P. Neuvial, M. Elati, F. Radvanyi and E. BirmelĂ©. Identification of deregulated transcription factors in specific bladder cancer subtypes. 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB), San Francisco, United States (2020). Canceled due to Coronavirus.

  • M. Champion, K. Brennan, T. Croonenborghs, A. Gentles, N. Pochet and O. Gevaert. Module Analysis Captures Pancancer Genetically and Epigenetically Deregulated Cancer Driver Genes for Smoking and Antiviral Response. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Boston, United States (2018).

  • M. Champion, J. Chiquet, P. Neuvial, M. Elati and E. BirmelĂ©. Identification of deregulated transcription factors in specific subtypes of cancer. 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), Shenzhen, China (2017).

  • M. Champion and O. Gevaert. Pancancer module analysis captures major oncogenic pathways and identifies master regulator of immune response. Keystone symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology: The Cancer Genome, Banff, Canada (2016).

  • M. Champion and O. Gevaert. Multi-omics data fusion for cancer data. 14th Annual International Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA), Dublin, Ireland (2015).

  • M. Champion, G. Chastaing, S. Gadat and C. Prieur. L2-Boosting on Generalized Hoeffding Decomposition for Dependent Variables. SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Savannah, United States (2014).

  • M. Champion, J. Vandel, C. Cierco-Ayrolles, S. Gadat and M. Vignes. An L2-Boosting algorithm for sparse multivariate regression: application to gene network recovery. NIPS Machine Learning for Computational Biology Workshop, Sierra Nevada, Spain (2011).



Other peer-reviewed conferences


  • M. Pacault, C. Verebi, M. Champion, L. Orhant, A. Perrier, C. FĂ©rec, T. Bienvenu, R. Daveau and J. Nectoux. Non-invasive prenatal diagnostic of monogenic diseases by relative haplotype dosage. 11th Meeting of Human and Medical Genetics, Rennes, France (2022).

  • J. Nectoux, C. Verebi, R. Daveau, A. Launois, L. Orhant, G. Leroy, M. Champion, D. Bouvet, C. Saint-Martin, C. Ciangura, and C. BellanĂ©-Chantelot. Non-invasive prenatal determination of the fetal genotype for pregnant women suffering from monogenic diabetes MODY-GCK: feasibility study on 24 patients. 11th Meeting of Human and Medical Genetics, Rennes, France (2022).

  • M. Pacault, C. FĂ©rec and M. Champion. Non Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Single Gene Disorders using long read technologies. Scientific days from the Biological-Health doctoral school, Angers, France (2019).

  • M. Champion, V. Picheny and M.Vignes. GADAG: an R-package for inferring Directed Acyclic Graphs by penalized maximum likelihood. 6th R meeting, Anglet, France (2017).

  • M. Champion, V. Picheny and M.Vignes. Inferring Directed Acyclic Graphs by penalized maximum likelihood. 49th Statistics days of the French Statistical Society, Avignon, France (2017).

  • M. Champion, J. Chiquet, P. Neuvial and E. BirmelĂ©. Identification of deregulated transcription factors in bladder cancer. Colloquim CARTABLE for Network Learning, Toulouse, France (2016).

  • M. Champion and O. Gevaert. Pancancer module analysis captures major oncogenic pathways and identifies master regulator of immune response. Stanford Cancer Institute Trainees Symposium, Stanford, United States (2016).

  • M. Champion and O. Gevaert. Multi-omics data fusion for cancer data. StatMathAppli conference, FrĂ©jus, France (2015).

  • M. Vignes, M. Champion and V. Picheny. Statistical causal inference in a complex system - an hybrid convex-genetic algorithm. Joint New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA) and Operations Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ) conference, Wellington, New Zealand (2014).

  • M. Champion, C. Cierco-Ayrolles, S. Gadat and M. Vignes. Convex optimization for learning Gene Regulatory Network. StatMathAppli conference, FrĂ©jus, France (2013).

  • M. Champion, C. Cierco-Ayrolles, S. Gadat and M. Vignes. Results on the L2-Boosting algorithms for sparse regressions. 45th Statistics days of the French Statistical Society, Toulouse, France (2013).



Invited talks at seminars


  • “l1-spectral clustering algorithm: a robust spectral clustering using Lasso regularization”:

    • 03/04/22 at ETH ZĂĽrich,

    • 02/11/22 webtalk for the Statistical learning seminar,

    • 01/08/21 at UniversitĂ© de Rennes.

  • “Sparse regression and optimization in high-dimensional framework for Gene Regulatory Network inference: application to cancer data”:

    • 05/23/19 at UniversitĂ© de Rouen,

    • 03/05/18 at UniversitĂ© de Montpellier,

    • 01/15/18 at AgroParisTech,

    • 10/09/17 at UniversitĂ© d’Angers,

    • 02/10/17 at UniversitĂ© de Rennes,

    • 01/30/17 at UniversitĂ© de Marseille,

    • 01/18/17 at UniversitĂ© de Lille I,

    • 12/06/16 at UniversitĂ© Toulouse III,

    • 11/24/16 at INRIA Nancy.

  • “Identification of deregulated transcription factors in bladder cancer”: 11/27/19 at UniversitĂ© de Lille.

  • “AMARETTO: a multi-omics data integration framework”:

    • 02/19/19 at UniversitĂ© de Bordeaux,

    • 12/06/18 at INRIA Nancy,

    • 12/14/17 at UniversitĂ© de Montpellier,

    • 09/08/17 at INRA Toulouse,

    • 01/21/16 at Stanford University,

    • 09/25/15 webtalk for the Cancer Target Discovery Network.

  • “Sparse regression and optimization in high-dimensional framework: application to Gene Regulatory Netowrks”:

    • 03/17/15 at INRIA Lille,

    • 11/06/14 at UniversitĂ© de Nantes,

    • 10/07/14 at UniversitĂ© Toulouse I.

  • “Statistical causal inference of Gene Regulatory Networks using l1 penalized likelihood”: 03/10/15 at INRA Jouy-en-Josas.

  • “An hybrid convex/greedy algorithm for learning DAG”:

    • 06/16/2014 at UniversitĂ© de Strasbourg,

    • 03/20/14 at MIA Colloquim in Ecully.

  • “Convex optimization for learning Gene Regulatory Network”:

    • 09/12/13 for the NETBIO workgroup in Paris,

    • 06/14/13 at INRA Toulouse.

  • “RĂ©sultats sur les algorithmes de L2-Boosting pour les rĂ©gressions sparses : cadre formel et extensions Ă  la situation multivariĂ©e”: 02/04/13 at INRA Montpellier.