Artur Scherf#
| Membership Number: | 3220 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pasteur.fr/en/research/bihp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Directeur de Rercherche classe exceptionelle (CNRS)
- 2003 Scientific director of a CNRS research unit (URA2581) at the Institute Pasteur composed for parasitology laboratories
- 2002 Head of a malaria research unit at the Institute Pasteur
- 1992-2001 Parasitology group leader at the Institute Pasteur
- 1989 Integration into the CNRS as Charge de Recherche
- 1987-1989 Post doc at the Institut Pasteur under the direction of Pereira da Silva
- 1984-1987 PhD at the University of Cologne under the direction of Prof. Benno Müller-Hill
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular parasitology
- Antigenic variation
- Nuclear biology
- Telomere biology
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Siver medal of the CNRS
- 2004-2006 Organization of two weeks student parasitology courses at the Marine Biology Laboratories, Woods Hole USA
- 2004-2009 Co-Chair of BioMalPar conference, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
- 2004-2009 Scientific Director of a Malaria FP6 sponsored network of exellence 'BioMalPar'
- 2005-2009 external SAB of European Malaria Vaccine Initiative (EMVI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2006 Embo member
- 2006 Professeur at the Institut Pasteur
- 2006 Parasitology Editor of Cellular Microbiology
- 2007-2011 Associate Editor for PLoS Pathogen
- 2008-2010 Co-Chair of the Gordon Research Conference Host Parasite Interactions
- 2008-2012 Member of the the CNRS National Committee
- 2008 external SAB of Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Crete, Greece
- 2010-2012 Co-Chair of Molecular Parasitology Meeting Woods Hole, USA
- 2010 ERC ‘advanced grant’
- 2011-2012 external SAB of Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Univ. Glasgow, Scotland
- 2012 Scientific Director of a French LabEx on Parasitology
