Geneviève Almouzni#
| Membership Number: | 2487 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://umr3664.curie.fr/en/profil/GenevieveAlmouzni |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2009 Deputy Director of the Institut Curie, Research Center for Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-graduate Educational Programme
- 2000 Senior Investigator (DRCE), Institut Curie, Paris (France). Head of Unit "Nuclear Dynamics and Genome Plasticity", UMR218
- 1999 Senior Investigator, Institut Curie, Paris (France). Head of Unit, Genotoxicology and Modulation of the Gene Expression, UMR218
- 1994-1998 Senior research scientist and CNRS ATIPE, Junior group leader, Institut Curie, Paris (France). UMR 144
- 1991-1993 Long term postdoctoral Fellow, NIH, Bethesda (USA). Lab. of Dr. A. Wolffe
- 1989-1993 CNRS Junior research scientist, Jacques Monod Institute, Paris (France). Lab. of Dr. M. Méchali
- 1988-1989 Short term post-doctoral Fellow, NIH, Bethesda (USA). Lab. of Dr. A. Wolffe
Fields of Scholarship
- Development
- Cell-cycle
- DNA damage and repair
- Epigenetics
- Chromatin
- Replication
Honours and Awards
- 1980-1985 Fellowship from ENS
- 1985-1987 Special ENS Doctoral fellowship (combining teaching at University of Paris 6)
- 1987-1988 Fellowship from the Association of Cancer Research (ARC)
- 1991-1993 Long term fellowship from EMBO for post-doctoral visit
- 1996 ATIPE CNRS Junior group leader position at the Curie Institute, Paris (France)
- 2000 Elected EMBO Member
- 2000 Silver Medal from the CNRS
- 2003 Prize from La Ligue contre le Cancer, Comité des Yvelines
- 2003 Member of the "Faculty of 1000 Biology"
- 2005-2010 Elected as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the EMBL Laboratory
- 2006 Special Scientific Prize attributed by the Institut de France / Fondation "Cino et Simone del Duca"
- 2007 Elected as a member of Academia Europaea
- 2007 Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite
