!!!Silvia Arber \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Arber_Silvia_small.jpg' caption='Photo: Lucian Hunziker' alt='Silvia Arber' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2008 Full Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum & Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland). * 2004 Associate Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum & Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland). * 2000 Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum/Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland). * 1996 Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Prof. T.M. Jessell, Columbia University, HHMI, New York. * 1992 Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. P. Caroni at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel: "Activity-sensitive signaling at the neuromuscular junction." * 1990 Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Dr. P. Caroni at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel. * 1987 Biology II study at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel with graduation in Cell Biology. \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ *2022 The Brain Prize *2020 Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States *2019 Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture *2018 Pradel Research Award 2018 W. Alden Spencer Award 2017 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine *2014 City of Basel Research Award *2014 Otto Naegeli Preis for Medical Research *2010 - 2015 ERC Advanced Grant *2008 Friedrich Miescher Award *2005 Schellenberg Prize for Research on cellular and molecular processes involved in spinal cord development, plasticity and regeneration. *2005 EMBO Member *2004 Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences – Member (Einzelmitglied der Akademie) *2003 European Eppendorf Young Investigator Award *2003 Nationaler Latsispreis *2001 EMBO Young Investigator Award *1999 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) tenth anniversary award for young investigators *1997 Pfizer Forschungs-Preis 1998, for the work “MLP-deficient mice exhibit a disruption of cardiac cytoarchitectural organization, dilated cardiomyopathy, and heart failure”. *1997 Fakultätspreis der Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Basel (Prize for the best thesis of the year awarded by the faculty, Basel, Switzerland). *1996 E. Fisher prize for the best thesis of the year at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland. \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Arber_Silvia/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Arber_Silvia/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Arber_Silvia/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Arber_Silvia/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit sarber}] [{ALLOW upload sarber}] [{ALLOW comment All}]