Members' Directory

Biography: since 05/2009: Aebersold Group, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland.
Post Doctoral position in the research group of Prof Dr Ruedi Aebersold and the subgroup of Dr Lars G. Malmström.
Main Project: Computational modelling and docking of protein-protein complexes using the simulation software ROSETTA and distance constraints from chemical cross-linking experiments.

10/2005-04/2009: Thornton Group, EMBL-EBI, University of Cambridge, Clare College, UK
PhD in Computational Molecular Biology, EMBL International PhD Program.
Dissertation title: The Geometry and Physicochemistry of Protein Binding Sites and Ligands and their Detection in Electron Density Maps
Co-supervisor: Dr Richard J. Morris (JIC, Norwich, UK)
Advisors: Prof Dr Robert Glenn (Uni. Cambridge, UK), Dr Nicholas Luscombe (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK)

09/2000-03/2005: Dept. of Hospital and Clinical Engineering, Environmental Technology and Biotechnology, University of Applied Science Giessen-Friedberg, Germany.
Undergraduate study in Bioinformatics.
Diploma thesis title: From Shape to Function: Prediction of Binding Pockets and their Description with Spherical Harmonics
Thesis supervisor: Prof Dr Uwe Hobohm (University of Applied Sciences Giessen)
Thesis co-supervisor: Prof Dr Jürgen Hemberger (University of Applied Sciences Giessen)

10/2003-03/2004: Dept of Genomics/Bioinformatics, Schering AG, Berlin, Germany.
Developed the multi-species genotype-phenotype database www.phenomicDB.de.
Supervised by Dr Bertram Weiss (Schering, Berlin, Germany)

07/2002-10/2002: Dept of Protein Crystallisation, Aventis Pharma AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Experimental work to assess the effects of size reduction of protein solution drops in crystallisation experiments using fully automated robotics in sitting drop format.
Supervised by Dr Christian Engel (Aventis, Frankfurt, Germany)

Biography: 2009-Present Assistant Professor, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
2005-2008 Staff Scientist, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Thornton Group.
2003-2004 Postdoc, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Thornton Group.
1998-2003 PhD in Physics and Biology, Dept. of Plant Sciences and Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel.
1996-1998 Visiting Student, Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Insitute of Sciences, Israel.
1994-1996 MSc. Solid State Physics (Statistical Physics), University of São Paulo, Brasil.
1990-1994 BSc. Molecular Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brasil.