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Heterochromatin
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Didier Trono
After obtaining an M.D. from the University of Geneva and completing a clinical training in pathology, internal medicine and infectious diseases in Geneva and at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Didier Trono embarked in a scientific career at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of MIT. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies to launch a center for AIDS research. He moved back to Europe seven years later, before taking the reins of the newly created EPFL School of Life Sciences, which he directed from 2004 to 2012. He is now actively engaged in the efforts of Switzerland to integrate new technologies in the fields of precision medicine and personalized health.
Joachim Lingner
PhD at the Biocenter, University of Basel 1989-1992 (Supervisor: Walter Keller). Postdoc at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder 1993-1997 (Supervisor: Thomas Cech). Junior group leader at ISREC 1997-2001. Senior group leader at ISREC since 2002. Associate Professor at EPFL 2005-2008. Full Professor at EPFL since 2009. Honors: START-fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1997; Friedrich Miescher Prize from the Swiss Society of Biochemistry in 2002; EMBO member in 2005; ERC advanced investigator grant in 2008.
Viesturs Simanis
Viesturs Simanis was awarded a degree in Biochemistry from Imperial College London. He carried out his doctoral studies with David Lane at Imperial College, London University, and postdoctoral studies with Paul Nurse (London and Oxford). He has been a group leader at ISREC since 1988. In 2006 he was appointed Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Southern Denmark in 1997. This was followed by two and a half years of PostDoc work at the Hawaii Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, where he conducted mineralogical studies of primitive chondritic meteorites. From 2000 to 2005, he was Research Associate in the Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, where he represented Stanford in the USGS-Stanford ion microprobe laboratory. In 2005, he became proifessor at the Muséum National dHistoire Naturelle in Paris. From 2006 to 2011 he was the director of the French national NanoSIMS laboratory. Since January 2012, he is professor at the EPFL in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). From April 2014, he is professor ad personam at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne.
Priscilla Turelli
Positions
2005-now: Research associate, Federal School of Life Sciences, Laboratory of Virology and Genetics, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001-2004: Research associate in Pr D. Tronos laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Geneva School of Medicine, Switzerland
1997-2001: Post-doctoral research fellow in Pr D. Tronos laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Geneva School of Medicine, Switzerland
Honors and fellowships 2004: Bristol-Myers Squibb AIDS AWARD 1997-1999: Human Frontier Science Program fellowship
Education June 1997: PhD in cellular biology. Final mark:jury congratulations. Université de la Méditerranée, France. June 1993: Post-graduate diploma in cellular biology and microbiology. INSERM U372, Marseille-Luminy, université de Provence, France. June 1992: Master in cellular biology Specialty: genetic. Final mark: Best master student of this year. Université de la Méditerranée, France. June 1987: Scientific baccalaureate, France.
Teaching experience 2009-now: phD thesis co-director, School of Life Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2002: Tutor in virology for medical students, 2nd year, Geneva School of Medicine, Switzerland. 1996-1997: Tutor in molecular biology and biochemistry for under-graduate students, Université de la Méditerranée, Aix Marseille II, France.
Honors and fellowships 2004: Bristol-Myers Squibb AIDS AWARD 1997-1999: Human Frontier Science Program fellowship
Education June 1997: PhD in cellular biology. Final mark:jury congratulations. Université de la Méditerranée, France. June 1993: Post-graduate diploma in cellular biology and microbiology. INSERM U372, Marseille-Luminy, université de Provence, France. June 1992: Master in cellular biology Specialty: genetic. Final mark: Best master student of this year. Université de la Méditerranée, France. June 1987: Scientific baccalaureate, France.
Teaching experience 2009-now: phD thesis co-director, School of Life Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland. 2002: Tutor in virology for medical students, 2nd year, Geneva School of Medicine, Switzerland. 1996-1997: Tutor in molecular biology and biochemistry for under-graduate students, Université de la Méditerranée, Aix Marseille II, France.