Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai - Curriculum Vitae#
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EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- 1988 - 1990 Pre-University education at schools in Trivandrum, Kerala state, India.
- 1990 - 1993 BSc (Botany), University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.
- 1994 - 1996 MSc (Biotechnology), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
- 1996 - 1998 PhD program of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (Discontinued)
- 1998 - 2002 PhD at the Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
- Current 4 Postdocs/ 5 PhD students.
- Supervised so far: 9 PhD students and 13 postdocs
- Former members: Simon Conn (Professor, Flinders University, Australia), Hao Wu (Professor, CAS, China), Mateusz Mendel (PI, Roche, Switzerland), Zhaolin Yang (Staff Scientist, Broad Institute, USA)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2016 Total teaching of 29 h/year. Teaching (in French) at Bachelor (3rd year) Molecular Biology (21h), (in English) at Masters level (6h), and lectures to PhD students (2h). 29 hours/year total at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
MEMBERSHIP OF REVIEW PANELS
- SAB of IGH, Montpellier (since 2023)
- ERC Consolidator Grant Review Panel (since 2019, panel chair since 2021)
- Member, Global Investigator Network committee, EMBO (2019-2021)
- Reviewing for EMBO Fellowships, EMBO Young Investigator Program (since 2017)
- SAB of IAB, Grenoble. Nov 2017, June 2019
- HCERES Review of IBENS (Institute de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure) (Dec 2017)
- HCERES Review of IGH, Montpellier (March 2020)
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- Member of the EMBO (since June 2017)
- Lifetime Member of the The RNA Society (since 2006)
- Editorial board of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) (since 2015)
- Editorial Board of RNA (since June 2018)
- Visiting Professor, IROAST, University of Kumamoto, Japan (since Oct 2016 - 2023)
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
- 2024 Co-organizer, PIWI and piRNAs Meeting, Montpellier, France
- 2023 Co-organizer, Keystone Symposia RNA Modifications in Health and Disease, Banff, Canada
- 2023 Co-organizer Swiss RNA Workshop, Bern, Switzerland (annual event)
- 2020 & 2022 Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany
- 2019-2021 Co-organizer, Gene Regulation Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2018 Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany