Thomas Lecuit#
| Membership Number: | 3732 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ibdm.univ-mrs.fr/equipe/cell-polarity-and-tissue-morphogenesis |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010-present Research Director, DR1, CNRS,
- 2012-present Director of Labex research network (INFORM), Aix Marseille Université and ANR.
- 2010-2011 Visiting Senior Professor, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
- 2008-present Editor of Development, Company of Biologists.
- 2006-2010 Research Director, DR2, CNRS,
- 2001-2006 Research Associate, CR1, CNRS.
- 2001-present Group Leader, Tissue Architecture and Plasticity, IBDM, Marseille, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Adhesion
- Cytoskeleton
- Tissue morphogenesis
- Tissue mechanics
- Cell biology
- Developmental biology
- Cell polarity
- Drosophila development
- Developmental patterning (signalling)
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Laureate of ERC Advanced Grant
- 2011 Grand Prix Victor Noury of Académie des Sciences
- 2009 Lacassagne Prize of Collège de France
- 2009 Elected EMBO Member
- 2008 Laureate of HFSP Programme Grant
- 2007 Early Career Award of European Life Science Organization (ELSO)
- 2007 Paoletti Prize of CNRS
- 2006 Bronze Medal of CNRS
- 2004 Laureate of EMBO Young Investigator Programme
- 2003 Laureate of Foundation Schlumberger for Education and Research
- 1998 HFSP Longterm Fellowship
- 1995 EMBO PhD Fellowship
