Laszlo Tora#
| Membership Number: | 4304 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://igbmc.fr/Tora |
Present and Previous Positions
- 01.2013 - 12.2013 Visiting prof. at the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-
- Since 2011 Research director (exceptional class 1, DRCE1 at CNRS) at IGBMC, Illkirch, France
- 2002 - 2005 Coordinator of the Transcription Department, IGBMC, Illkirch, France
- 2001 - 2011 Research director (First class at CNRS, DR1/equivalent of Professor level) at IGBMC, Strasbourg (CNRS, DR1)
- 1996 - 2001 Research director at IGBMC, Illkirch, France (CNRS, DR2) -
- Since 1994 Group Leader at IGBMC; studying "The molecular mechanisms of basal and activated RNA pol. II transcription"
- 1991-1995 Assistant professor at LGME/IGBMC, Illkirch (CNRS, CR1), -
- 1988-1991 Post-doctoral fellow at LGME/CNRS-U184, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg under the direction of Prof. P. Chambon
- 1985 - 1988, Post-doctoral fellow at Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg; under the direction of Dr. Maria Bellard
- 1981 - 1985, Ph.D. at Frédéric Joliot Curie National Institute for Radiobiology, Budapest (Hungary)
Fields of Scholarship
- Regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription
- Initiation of transcription
- Subunits, structure, function and assembly of TFIID complexes
- TATA box binding (TBP)-type factors
- TBP-associated factors (TAFs)
- Histone acetyl transferase (HAT) complexes
- Subunits, structure, function and assembly of Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase (SAGA) complexes
- Subunits, structure, function and assembly of ADA two A containing (ATAC) HAT complexes
- Function of chromatin modification
- Epigenetics
- Macromolecular complex assembly pathways
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Elected EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) member
- 2001 Received the silver medal of CNRS (France)
- 2005 Received the Helmholtz Humboldt Research Award (Germany
- 2010 Elected as exterior member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Biological Sciences
- 2011 Received the « Grand Prix Etancelin » from the French Academy of Sciences
- 2013 Received the ERC Advanced Grant of € 2.5 million for his project 'BIRTOACTION' (starting date 01. 01. 2014)
