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Melanie Blokesch
Melanie Blokesch holds a PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology) she joined EPFL as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) in 2016. In 2018, Melanie Blokesch was nominated as new member of the the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) National Research Council (starting date: April 2019). Melanie Blokesch is also an elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM; since 2018) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO; since 2019). Among other awards and grants, Melanie Blokesch has been honored with the Prize for Junior Scientists of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, an ERC Starting Grant in 2012, the EPFL teaching award "Polysphère" for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences (academic year 2014-2015), the Research Award by the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM; Germany) in 2015, and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016. In 2017, Melanie Blokesch was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship.
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.
Mackenzie Mathis
Center for NeuroprostheticsEPFL ELLIS Unit Faculty MemberCenter for Intelligent Systems