Members' Directory

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

Biography: I graduated in Biology and Bioinformatics at Bordeaux University, France. I came to the EBI, within the sequence database group, to work on orthologues prediction.
Subsequently, I worked at the Welcome Trust Sanger institute on copy number variation in human.
I did my PhD at Lausanne University, in Victor Jongeenel's and Sven Bergmann's labs working on methods to infer copy number variation from normal and cancer genomes.
I am currently working at the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences. My research focuses on nutrigenomics studies and on the potential impact of personalized nutrition on metabolic disease.

Biography: I discovered EMBL trough a summer training at EMBL from april to sept 2000, with Matthias Hentze. Then went on with the PhD programme in Matthias Hentze's lab from sept 2000 to april 2003

Postdoc at Rockefeller University, New York - USA, lab of Robert Darnell from june 2003 to dec. 2004

Scientific expert for Amgen Europe (biotechnology industry)- based in Paris, France. Since January 2005

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Biography: since 10/2005 F. Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
I’m working in a GxP environment and concerned with
mass spectrometry of therapeutic antibodies and small
molecules. My responsibilities are the leading of the mass
spectrometry laboratory, development and validation of methods,
scheduling and procedure of analysis and whose reporting.
2002 - 2005 Proteomics Core Facility, EMBL European Molecular Biology
Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany
Acquired techniques from protein isolation up to their
identification by mass spectrometry through spectrum evaluation and
database searches. My responsibilities were the works with internal
and external customers to the institute and their projects. As an
example, I identified marker proteins in different body fluids,
proteins of stem cells from cell culture, blood and bone marrow.
07/2001-12/2001 Diplom Dissertation, mtm laboratories, Heidelberg
Identification, evaluation and pre-clinical validation of
markers on the carcinomic cell lines disseminated tumor cells
within the periphic patients blood by using the RT-real time-
PCR.
02/2000-04/2000 Part time employee Fraunhofer IVV, Freising
Department of Food Technology
09/1999-02/2000 Internship Fraunhofer IVV, Freising
Department of Food Technology
1998-2001 Study of Biotechnology, University of Applied Science Lausitz,
Senftenberg
1995-1998 Study of Business Engineering, University of Applied Science Lausitz,
Senftenberg

Biography: Richard Benton received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Cambridge for work in the group of Daniel St Johnston at The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute. He joined Leslie Vosshall's laboratory at The Rockefeller University, New York, for his post-doctoral training, during which he was supported by fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organisation and the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. He established his group at the Center for Integrative Genomics in September 2007, and was awarded a European Research Council Starting Independent Grant in 2008. In 2009, he won the Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, and in 2011 he received an HFSP Young Investigator Award.

Biography: Graduate Engineer in Physical Chemistry
PhD in Physical Chemistry
Experience in QSAR, Protein and peptide/membrane interactions
Peptidomimetics, database searching
Patents