Members' Directory

Biography: 1986- : ingénieur électronicien at CNRS France

Biography: - Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, USA, 1969 - 1973
- CERN GENEVA, Switzerland, 1973 - 1978
- EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 1979 - 2005
- EPFL (ETH Lausanne), Switzerland, 2005 -

Biography: Studies: chemistry, universities Vienna and Freiburg;
PhD 1975 Max-Planck-Institut for Immunobiology, Freiburg
Postdoc: WEHI,Melbourne; Centre d'Immunologie,Marseille

Staff position since 1980 at the German Cancer Research Center

Research topic: immunological tolerance and autoaggression using genetically modified mice.

Biography: Education:
1972-1976 Degree with honours in Biological Sciences
University of Rome, IT
1976 Course in Marine Biology
Station Biologique, Roscoff, FR
1977 EMBO course 'Electron microscopy of nucleic acids'
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1987 EMBO course 'Antibodies in cell biology'
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE

Current position:
from 2000 Full Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Siena, IT

Previous positions:
1976-1978 Post-doctoral research associate
Centro Acidi Nucleici CNR, Rome, IT
1978-80 Post-doctoral long-term EMBO fellow
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1981-1986 Staff scientist
Dpt. of Genetics and Molecular Biology
University of Rome ?La Sapienza?, IT
1983 Visiting scientist
EMBL, Heidelberg, DE
1986-1998 Staff scientist
Dpt. of Evolutionary Biology
University of Siena, IT
1998-2000 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
University of Siena, IT

Group leader and Co-ordinator of the research activities of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the Department of Evolutionary Biology (University of Siena)

Organization of courses and meetings
1994 EC COMET course 'PCR technology and its applications' Siena
1997, 1999, 2002 EMBO Workshop 'Lymphocyte antigen receptor and coreceptor signaling' Siena
Memberships:
Editorial Board Eur. J. Immunol.
Advisory Board Journal of Mol. Biol. Biotechnol. and Signal Transduction
Ad hoc reviewer of Blood, J. Biol. Chem., EMBO Reports, FEBS Lett, J. Cell. Physiol. , Hum.Mut., Tissue and Cell, Biochem. Pharmacol.
Member of the Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology and of the Italian Society of Immunology
Expert for the evaluation EC projects IV and V FP, INTAS, Wellcome Trust
Referee for the Italian National Institute of Health and the Italian Association for Cancer Research
Supervisor in the Open University PhD Program

Biography: BSc. degree: 1975- 1978, 1st Class Honors, Reading University, UK

PhD. Thesis: 1978-1981 , "The interferon system in the developing mouse embryo" Warwick University, UK. Supervisor: Prof. DC Burke

Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1) 1981-1985 with Dr. Brigid Hogan, at the I.C.R.F. Mill Hill Laboratories, London, U.K. Project - Isolation of basement membrane genes

Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2) 1985-1988 with Dr. Hans Lehrach, at the E.M.B.L. Heidelberg, Germany. Project - Molecular strategies to isolate developmental genes from the mouse t complex region.

Group Leader (1) 1988-1995 Institute of Molecular Pathology (I.M.P), Vienna.
Research area: Mammalian Developmental Genetics, focus on genomic imprinting. (5 + 3 year position). Elected EMBO member in 1995

Group leader (2) 1996 ? 2001 (May) The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Research area: links between mammalian development and tumor genetics (Permanent position)

Head, Department of Developmental Genetics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Biology, Salzburg, Austria. From 1st June 2000 (Permanent position)

General scientific interest:
1. Mammalian development in mice and the involvement of developmental genes in human disease. The last 10 years, focus on genomic imprinting function and mechanism. We earlier identified the mouse Igf2r gene as an imprinted gene also demonstrated that this gene uses a methylation imprint to express the maternal allele. Many imprinted genes now appear to carry methylation imprints that act to express the active allele. Silencing of the paternal Igf2r allele was recently shown to involve a regulatory non-coding RNA named Air . Future work will investigate the mechanism of silencing by non-coding RNAs and their general application to silencing imprinted genes. July 25, 2002.
2. Member and current chair of the EMBO Science and Society Committee

Biography: I was the Computer Specialist at Hamburg from 1 Jan 1975 until suffering a stroke on the end of November 1999. I have been retired since!

Biography: 1971: Ph.D in chemistry; University of Auckland, NZ
1971 - 76: Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK (with Prof. D.C. Hodgkin)
1977 - 81: Scientist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
1982 - 85: Scientist, EMBL, Grenoble Outstation, France.
1986 - present: Scientist, Unité d'Immunologie Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris. (Head of Unit since 1992)

Current research interests: Structural Biology (protein crystallography), immune recognition, Plasmodium antigens

Biography: After EMBL, I did my Ph.D. in Amsterdam in molecular parasitology, then went to Glasgow University for five years as a post-doc in the same field. Got as far as I could in that career, and am now starting on the horticultural ladder, as a student near York. Enjoying myself a lot - plants rule!!

Biography:
1999 Scientist, HIV Drug Resistance Program, RT Biochemistry Section, NCI-Frederick , Frederick, MD

1999-1991 Senior Instructor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

1990-1987 Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Immune Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

1987-1985 Post Doctoral Fellow, Pharma Department, F. Hoffman-La Roche & Company, Basel Switzerland

1985-1984 Post Doctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

1984-1981 Post Doctoral Fellow, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

1981 Ph.D., Molecular Genetics, University of Heidelberg, Germany