Mihaela Zavolan#
Membership Number: | 3881 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/groups-platforms/overview/unit/zavolan |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2014 Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel. Computational and Systems Biology
- 2008–2014 Associate Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel. Computational and Systems Biology
- since 2004 Group Leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel. RNA regulatory networks
- 2003–2008 Assistant Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational RNA biology
- MiRNAs
- Splicing
- RNA-binding proteins
- Pre-mRNA 3' end processing
Honours and Awards
- 2012 ERC Starting grant
- 2006-2009 Young Investigator of EURASNET, the European network on alternative splicing
- 2001–2003 Lita Annenberg Hazen Presidential Fellowship, The Rockefeller University
- 2001 Presidential Fellowship, The Rockefeller University
- 2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fellow, The Rockefeller University