Members' Directory

Biography: 1992-1997 University of Pavia-Degree in Biology. Diploma research at the National Research Center; Department of Genetic, Biochemistry and Evolutionism of Pavia, Italy in the lab. of Prof. G. Milanesi
october 1996-march 1997 Erasmus fellowship at the Institute Pasteur-Paris in the lab of Prof. Marc Girard.
1997-1998 Research Center "San Raffaele"-DIBIT- Milan in the lab of Dr. Paolo Lusso
october 1998-september 2002 PhD EMBL Heidelberg in the lab of Dr. Gareth Griffiths
October 2002 post-doc fellow in the lab of Dr. Carlos Dotti

Biography: 1997 MSc, Molecular Cell Biology, University of Oslo
2001 PhD, Molecular Cell Biology, EMBL, Heidelberg

Biography: Name: Gareth Wyn GRIFFITHS
Date of Birth:29 December 1948
Place of Birth:Bangor, Wales, U.K.
Undergraduate studies:1967-1970 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. England.
Bsc Hons in Agricultural Zoology (specializing in Parasitology and Entomology).
Graduate Studies:1970-1975 University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. M.S. (1972),
Ph.D (1975) in Entomology. Ph.D. Thesis:‘Intracellular symbiotes of the pea-aphid
Acrythosiphon pisum’.
Post-doctoral position: 1975-1977. Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics,
Tübingen, F.R. Germany. Project: studies on the optic lobes of the housefly Musca domestica.
EMBL, Heidelberg:1977-1983 Staff Scientist; 1983 onwards, Group leader and permanent staff
member.
University of Oslo Feb 2009. Professor of Microbiology. IMBV. UiO.
Awards
I EMBO Member 1999. II Foreign Member Norwegian Academy of Sciences- 2002
III. Gregor Mendel medal of the Czech Akademy of Sciences (Ceske Budejovice, 2003.

Biography: Maximiliano Gutierrez born in 1976 in Mendoza, Argentina, is head of the Junior Research Group “Phagosome Biology” at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig. He studied at the University of San Luis, San Luis and obtained a biochemistry and molecular biology degree from the University of San Luis in 2005. In 2005, he was awarded PhD from, University of San Luis, Argentina. After that, he spent almost three years as a postdoctoral scientist at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany as a fellow of the von Humboldt foundation and EMBO. Since November 2008, he is the head of the Junior Group “Phagosome Biology”. The main area of research is the cell biology of host-pathogen interactions with a focus on mycobacteria.

Biography: Rob Parton studied biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from Leicester University in England studying the mechanisms of tetanus toxin internalization under David Critchley. He joined the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg Germany in 1987 as a Royal Society and then EMBO postdoctoral fellow. He worked with Gareth Griffiths and Kai Simons on endocytosis in polarized cells before becoming a Staff Scientist focussing on caveolae, his current research interest. In 1996 he moved to the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and became a Principal Research Fellow of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council in 2000.