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Biography: Darcy Birse completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; a Diplôme d?Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) degree in Structural Biology at the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IBMC) & CNRS-INSERM-Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France; his doctoral thesis, Ph.D. in Physics (Protein Crystallography) at the EMBL-Grenoble & Université Joseph Fourier, France; an EMBO post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stockholm University, Sweden; was awarded an Assistant Professor / Principal Investigator position at Stockholm University in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. During that research period he worked on a series of complex and challenging drug discovery and bioprocessing research projects complimented by an interactive pursuit of method development applications performed in collaboration and conjunction with biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industrial partners. Darcy Birse is the inventor of several biotechnology patents, author of more than 30 scientific publications and has been invited to speak at more than 25 international meetings in the biopharmaceutical and bioprocessing sectors. His activites within TGN Biotech have evolved from Director, Process Development to his current role, Vice-President, Biopharmaceutical Development.

Biography: BSc (hons) Imperial College, University of London, 1988
PhD EMBL and University of London, 1991
Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL, 1991-1992
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, 1992-1996
Research Fellow, Center for Cancer Research, MIT, 1996-1998
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, 1998-2002
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, 2002-present

Biography: Since 2009-09: Ph.D. student, University of British Columbia – Vancouver, BC, Canada
09/2007 - 09/2009: Bioinformatics specialist, Terry Fox Laboratory - BC Cancer Agency, Canada
04/2007 - 08/2007: Scientific programmer, Computational Genomics Unit - INA-CERTH, Greece
08/2006 - 03/2007: Consultant, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge UK and California Institute of Technology, Long Beach, USA
07/2004 - 07/2006: Software engineer, EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
09/2002 - 07/2004: Software engineer, BIOXTAL – UPR9050 CNRS, Strasbourg France
09/2001 - 06/2002: M. Sc. Computer Science, Université Louis Pasteur – Strasbourg, France
09/1997 - 06/2001: B. Sc. Structural Biochemistry, Université Louis Pasteur – Strasbourg, France

Biography: Born 25 April, 1973, India
EDUCATION
2004 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Jadavpur University, India
1996 Master of Science (M.Sc.)Banaras Hindu Uuniversity, India
1993 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)Burdwan University, India
GRANTS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
1997-2002 Research fellowship from UGC,Government of India
1997 Qualified NET for Lecturership and research fellowship
1996 Qualified All India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
1995 Merit scholarship from UGC,Government of India.
1993 National scholarship, Government of India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2005-2012 Developmental Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Anne Ephrussi
1997-2003 Department of Genetic Engineering, IICB, Kolkata, India
Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Samit Adhya
1992-1993 Department of Zoology, Hooghly Mohsin College, India
INVITED ORAL PRESENTATIONS
1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on 'Eukaryotic mRNA Processing, USA
2009.
2. Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, USA 2008
PUBLICATIONS
1. Ghosh, S., Marchand, V. and Ephrussi, A. Characterization of PYM in Drosophila reveals its role in EJC disassembly during oogenesis. Manuscript in preparation.
2. Ghosh, S.*, Marchand, V.*, Gaspar, I. and Ephrussi, A. (2012) Control of RNP motility and localization by a splicing-dependent structure in oskar mRNA. Nature Structural Molecular Biology 19(4), 441-449.
*equal contribution
3. Ghosh, S., Goswami, S. and Adhya, S. (2003) Role of superoxide dismutase in survival of Leishmania within the macrophage. Biochemical Journal 369(Pt.3), 447-452.
4. Adhya, S., Basu, S., Bhattacharyya, S.N., Chatterjee, S., Dhar, G., Goswami, S., Ghosh, S., Home, P., Mahata, B. and Tripathi, G. (2003) Mitochondrial differentiation in kinetoplastid protozoa: a plethora of RNA controls. Differentiation 71, 549–556.