Konrad Basler#
| Membership Number: | 1981 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imls.uzh.ch/research/basler.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Professor, Department of Molecular Life Sciences, Univ. of Zurich
- 1999 - 2009 Professor, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zurich
- 1997 - 1999 Professor, Zoology Institute, University of Zurich
- 1993 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Zoology Institute, University of Zurich
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral work with Drs. Tom Jessell and Gary Struhl at Columbia University, New York
- 1986 - 1989 Ph. D. Thesis with Prof. Ernst Hafen at the Zoology Institute, University of Zurich
Fields of Scholarship
- Colon cancer
- In vivo animal models (mouse, Drosophila melanogaster)
- Wnt signaling
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Breast cancer
- Developmental biology
- Signal transduction
- β-catenin
Honours and Awards
- 2010 - 2017 Directorship Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
- 2007 - 2010 Directorship Institute of Molecular Biology
- 2005 - 2014 Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 2000 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine
- 1999 Gold Medal of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1997 National Latsis Prize
- 1996 FEBS Anniversary Prize
- 1996 Friedrich Miescher Award
- 1991 European Drosophila Research Junior Award
