Giorgio Bernardi#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 318 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Giorgio Bernardi passed away April 16, 2021.
Positions Held
- 2010 Visiting Professor, Biology Department, Rome 3 University, Rome, Italy
- 2009 - 2012 President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
- 2007 - 2009 Vice-President of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
- 2007 President Emeritus, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
- 2002 Directeur de Recherche Honoraire, CNRS
- 2001 - 2004 Secretary General of the International Union of the Biological Sciences (IUBS)
- 1999 Scholar of the European Union Senior Research Program in Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (Prof. T. Gojobori) [July-August]
- 1998 - 2009 Head, Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
- 1998 - 2007 President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
- 1997 - 2002 Directeur de Recherche émérite, CNRS
- 1997 - 2002 Expert, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy
- 1996 - 1997 Visiting Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (Prof. T. Gojobori) [July-August].
- 1995 Visiting Professor, University of Osaka, Institute for Molecular & Cellular Biology, Osaka, Japan (Prof. K. Matsubara) [July-September]
- 1981 - 1984 Fogarty Scholar, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA (Dr. G. Felsenfeld; Dr. M. Singer) [Summers].
- 1978 - 1981 Co-Director of the Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
- 1973 - 1997 Directeur de Recherche de Classe Exceptionnelle, CNRS
- 1970 - 2002 Head, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Institut de Recherche en Biologie Moléculaire (later, Institut Jacques Monod), Paris, France
- 1968-1973 Directeur de Recherche, CNRS
- 1962-1968 Maître de Recherche, CNRS.
- 1962 Visiting Scientist, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA (Prof. C.A. Thomas, Jr.)
- 1959 - 1962 Chargé de Recherches, CNRS
- 1959 - 1969 Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules, Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), Strasbourg, France
- 1957 - 1959 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
- 1956 - 1957 Research Fellow, Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules, Strasbourg, France; Institute of Advanced Technology, Bradford, UK
- 1953 - 1956 Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, Universities of Padova and Pavia, Italy
- 1952 - 1953 Medical Officer, Italian Air Force
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromosome structure
- Genome organization
- Genome evolution
Honours and Awards
- 1964 Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1973 1st Karl-August-Forster Prize, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, Germany
- 1975 - 1981 Member of the Scientific Council of EMBO
- 1977 Honorary Member of the Societá Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale
- 1981 Listed as one of the 1,000 most cited authors (Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, PA., USA; survey of 1965-1978 publications)
- 1982 ICSU/TWAS/UNESCO Lecturer, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (August)
- 1986 Diplôme d'honneur of the Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS)
- 1989 Member of Academia Europea
- 1989 Member of the Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
- 1994 1st Engelhardt Lecture, Moscow
- 1997 Member of the "Societá Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti", Naples (Italy)
- 1997 1st Bayev Lecture, Moscow, Russia
- 1998 EMBO Lecture, Montesilvano, Italy
- 2000 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2001 "Erasmus Lecture", Academia Europea, Venice, Italy
- 2004 Member of "Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti", Venice, Italy
- 2004 Member of "Accademia Pontaniana", section Natural Sciences, Naples, Italy
- 2005 Member of "Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XL", Rome, Italy
- 2005 Foreign Honorary Member of the Genetics Society of Japan