Mario De Bono - Curriculum Vitae#

Posts held

• From 2019 Professor Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
  
• 2004 - 2019 Tenured Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
  
• 1999 - 2004 Tenure-track Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
  
• 1997 - 1999 Research Associate Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, USA (with Cori Bargmann)
  
• 1995 - 1997 Wellcome Trust Travelling Prize Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, USA (with Cori Bargmann)

Education

• 1990 B.Sc. (Hons) 1st Class Molecular Biology, University of Glasgow
  
• 1995 Ph.D. (Biology), University of Cambridge

Scientific Honors and awards

• 2018 - 2023 Wellcome Investigator Award
  
• 2011 - 2017 Advanced Grant ERC
  
• 2011 - 2014 CoEN Award (Centre of Excellence in Neurodegeneration)
  
• 2006 - 2008 Human Frontiers Science Program Organization grant
  
• 2007 Elected to EMBO
  
• 2005 The Balfour Lecture, The Genetics Society, UK
  
• 2004 Max Perutz Prize, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  
• 1995 Wellcome Trust Prize Travelling Fellowship
  
• 1990 Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship
  
• 1990 External Research Studentship, Trinity College, Univ. Cambridge
  
• 1990 Overseas Research Studentship, UK.
  
• 1990 Jamieson Prize (Best Mol. Biol. degree), Glasgow Univ., UK

Organization of meetings & courses

• 2022 Co-organizer, European Worm Meeting
  
• 2021 Chair, Gordon Conference “Modulation of Neural Circuits & Behavior”
  
• 2019 Vice-Chair, Gordon Conference “Modulation of Neural Circuits & Behavior”
  
• 2014 Co-organizer Symposium Molecular Biology at 50 and beyond
  
• 2011 13th IBANGS meeting, Rome
  
• 2010 Co-organizer, “Molecular Systems Neurobiology” session EMBO meeting
  
• 2009 Co-organizer, International C. elegans meeting
  
• 2009 Co-organiser, 11th IBANGS meeting in Dresden
  
• 2005 - 2007 Instructor, Cold Spring Harbor C. elegans course

Peer Review

• 2020 - present EMBO Fellowship Committee
  
• 2015 - present Evaluation Committees, HCERES
  

Journals: Nature, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, J. Neuroscience, Cell reports, PNAS, Current Biology, PLoS Genetics; Genetics, eLife (20/year)

Grant agencies: ERC, HFSP, MRC, BBSRC, FRS-FNRS (Belgium), AERES (France), Israel Science Foundation (8/year).

Editorial Boards: EMBO Reports, 2009–2017; Neural systems and circuits 2010– 2013; Scientific Reports 2015 - present