Members' Directory

Biography: I received a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry in July 2004 from the University of Nancy, Lorraine, France. I joined EMBL in July 2004 as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Elisa Izaurralde. In July 2006 I followed Elisa Izaurralde to the Department of Biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany. In January 2007, I went back to France, as a team leader (CNRS-CR2).

Biography: 1989 Maturità Scientifica Liceo S. Francesco d’Assisi, Roma
1995 Laurea in Scienze Biologiche, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
1996 - 1999: PhD Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Study of Catania. (Italy)
1999 - 2003: Post-Doctoral Fellow from the European Community TMR Network in the laboratory directed bt JP Henry. UPR1929 CNRS (Paris – France)
2003 - 2005: Post-Doctoral fellow from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) at the EMBL Mouse Biology Unit in the laboratory directed by Walter Witke. (Monterotondo – Italy)
2006 - 2007: Post-Doctoral fellow from Fondo investimento ricerca di base (FIRB) at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in the laboratory directed by Luisa Minghetti. (Rome – Italy)
since 2008: CNR researcher at the IGB-ABT in the laboratory of Developmental Neuroscience

Biography: Born in Milan, Italy, on Sep.9, 1963
Two daughters, born in 1995 and 2002

Nov.1982-Feb.1987: Laurea degree in Biology at the University of Milan, Italy; graduated cum laude
Apr.1987-Aug.1989: research fellow at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, in the group of Prof. R.Cortese, Gene Expression Programme
Sep.1989-Aug.1991: postdoctoral fellow at the EMBL, Gene Expression Programme, in the group of Dr. D.Tollervey
Sep.1991-at present: staff member of the Dept. of Genetics and Microbiology (now Dept. of Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology), University of Milan, Italy

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: Graduated in Agricultural Science at the University of Bologna (1991), Postgraduate fellow in the Agricultural Chemistry Department (1992-1996), PhD student at the EMBL Hamburg outstation (1996-2000)
Postdoctoral fellow at ICGEB Trieste (2000-2002) 2002-2007 York Structural Biology Laboratory (York, UK), 2007-2009 AstraZeneca plc. (UK), 2009-present Assistant Professor University of Bolzano

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: 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.