Thomas Lecuit - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), 1991
- PhD, Univ of Paris 1998
Research and Professional experience:
- Research Director CNRS, 2006-present, IBDM, CNRS & Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- Visiting Professor, NCBS, Bangalore, 2011
- Research Associate CNRS, 2001-2006, IBDM, Marseille, France
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-2001, Princeton Univ., USA, (with E. Wieschaus).
- PhD thesis, 1995-1998, EMBL, Heidelberg (with S. Cohen).
- MSc, 1994. Rockefeller University, New York, USA. (with C. Desplan).
Scientific Responsibilities:
- Principal Investigator, IBDM, Marseille, France. Since 2001.
- Director of Labex INFORM research network, Marseille, France. Since 2012.
- Director of LIA (Laboratoire International Associé), IBDM-NCBS. Since 2014.
Editorial activities:
- Editor of Development (since 2008).
- Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) of Science (since 2014)
Reviewing activities:
- Journals: mostly Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Developmental Cell, Current Biology, Journal of Cell Biology.
- Grant agencies: International: ERC, HFSP, EMBO; UK: Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC; USA: NSF, and other countries (Switzerland, Israel, Singapore, Netherlands etc).
Scientific committees:
Panel member of:
- European Research Council, Starting Grant, LS3, since 2011.
- ATIP/AVENIR (CNRS-INSERM) Starting Grant, LS3, since 2008. Panel chair in 2014.
- Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) (SVSE2), in 2013.
- Swiss National Science Foundation, Systems Biology, since 2013.
- Interface Research Grant Physics-Chemistry-Biology at CNRS in 2007-2008.
Conferences/Lectures:
- Organization:
- EMBO Workshop ‘Epithelial polarity in development and disease’ march 2004, Carry le Rouet, France.
- EMBO Lecture course ‘Mesoscopic origins of cell behavior during morphogenesis’, april 2012, in Cargese, France.
- Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology, 22 july- 24 august 2013, KITP, Santa Barbara (Course **Director with B. Shraiman, E. Paluch and J. Rothman)
- 1st Conference on Quantitative Biology of Signalling. Cargese, October 21-25 2013.
- EMBO Workshop ‘Epithelial polarity in development and disease’ march 2004, Carry le Rouet, France.
- Session chair: ASCB meeting (2005, 2011), ELSO Conference (2005), EMBO Conference (2012) and EDRC meeting (2008).
- Invitation to over 80 conferences and 60 seminars/lectures since 2001, including 5 Plenary lectures.
