Research

Currently	Post-doctoral fellow, Cutter lab, EEB Department. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
2007-2011	Ph.D., MOCB program. Doctoral Research Advisor: Dr. Eric Haag. Dissertation: Evolution of sex-biased expression in Caenorhabditis. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Jan-Sept 2006	Master (2) Advisor : Dr. Jessica Zucman-Rossi. Research topic: Transcriptomic characterization of teliangectatic focal nodular hyperplasia and inflammatory hepatocellular adenoma. INSERM U674 , Paris, France.
April-Sept 2005	Master (1) Advisor : Dr. Leslie Pick. Research topic: Mimicking the evolution of a homeotic gene into a segmentation gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Pick lab, University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA.
July-Sept 2004	Licence (2) Advisor: Dr. Peter J. Murray. Research topic: Nod proteins and innate immune response. Murray lab , St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis TN, USA
July-Sept 2003	Licence (1) Advisor : Dr. Jessica Zucman-Rossi. Research topic: Characterization of genetic alteration in renal cell carcinoma. INSERM U434 , Paris, France.

Education

2011	Ph.D, Molecular Biology, Evolutionary genetics & Bio-informatics, MOCB program. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
2006	Master & Magistère, Biology of cancer & Genetics. Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, Paris, France.
2004	Licence, Cellular Biology & Physiology. Université de Versailles St-Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France.

Teaching

Springs 2008-2011	TA, Biology of Cancer (BSCI433) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Spring 2007	TA, Principles of Genetics (BSCI222) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.

Publications and Communications

Complete list of publications

Conferences

2012 Oral	Thomas CG, Li R, Woodruff GC, Smith HE, Oliver B, Haag ES. Size matters: transcriptomic desexualization of androdioecious Caenorhabditis. Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
2011 Poster	Thomas CG, Li R, Korf I, Smith HE, Oliver B, Haag ES. Evolution of Sex-biased Expression in the Caenorhabditis genus. 18th International C. elegans Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2010 Oral	Thomas CG, Korf I, Haag ES. How do males and females do it? A phylo-genomic screen for reproductive genes lost in hermaphrodite lineages. Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes, Hinxton, UK.
2009 Poster	Thomas CG, Korf I, Haag ES. Consequences of mating system switches on the evolution of sex-biased genes in Caenorhabditis. SDB Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
2008 Poster	Thomas C, Woodruff G, Haag ES. The Evolution Of Sex-Specific Transcription In Caenorhabditis. Worm Development & Evolution Meeting, Madison, WI, USA.

Awards

2011	3rd Prize GSA Poster Award. 18th International C. elegans Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2010	CLFS Travel Award to Hinxton, Cambridge, UK for the Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes meeting.

References

Eric S Haag	website	email: ehaag (at) umd.edu
Asher Cutter	website	email: asher.cutter (at) utoronto.ca
Brian Oliver	website	email: oliver (at) helix.nih.gov