Marcel Méchali#
| Membership Number: | 6983 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.igh.cnrs.fr/fr/project/index/38/0/replication-et-dynamique-du-genome |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-0217-371X |
Present and Previous Positions
- Present position since 1998 Group leader at the Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France
- Previous positions 2011- 2021 Director of the Labex Network EpiGenMed 2011- 2021 (58 teams)
- 2003 - 2006 Director of the Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
- 1984 - 1998 Group leader, laboratory of Genome Dynamics and Development, Institute Jacques Monod, Paris
- 1981 - 1984 Post doctoral fellow at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Human and mouse ES cells
- DNA replication origins and genome organisation
- DNA Repair
- Chromosome organization
- DNA replication origins and development
- DNA replication and cell cycle
- Xenopus early development
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Knight of the Academic Palms
- 2011 Price René and André Duquesne of the Cancer Ligue
- 2010 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
- 2008 Member of the Academy of 1000.
- 2007 ERC Advanced Investigator
- 2005 Elected Member of the the French Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Fundation Allianz Price
- 2003 Rosen Price of the Fundation for Medical Research.
- 2002 EMBO Member
- 1996 CNRS Silver Medal
- 1982 - 1983 Elected Senior Member of the Darwin College, Cambridge, UK
