Genevieve Rougon - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- 1970 - 1971: DEA Organic Chemistry, mention Bien
- 1971 - 1976: PhD Biochemistry (Director M. Delaage) with honnors
- 1976 - 1980:Doctorat d'Etat, Biochemistry (Director M. Delaage) with honnors
Occupied Positions:
- 1970 - 1979: Assistante des Hôpitaux. (MCU till 1977 then MCU-PH) Medical University and Hospital of Marseille
- 1979 - present: researcher at CNRS
Post-doctoral positions:
- 1980 - 1981: EMBO University of London (UK) Director: M. Raff.
- 1984 - 1986: NIH fellowship: Laboratory of Cell Biology, NIH Bethesda (USA) Director: Dr. M. Brownstein
Participation/Coordination of 5 EC networks (1993- 2005)
Ph D Thesis supervision: 18 (from 1987 to 2015)
Research experience:
- 1971 - 1974 (Laboratory for lipid studies Marseille) Organic chemistry (Tutor: M Naudet)
- 1971 - 1980 (Center for Molecular Biology Marseille) Immunogenicity neuropeptides (advisor: M. Delaage)
- 1981 (UCL London) Set up of primary cultures of neural cells (advisor: M. Raff)
- 1982 - 1986 (Centre for Immunology CIML Marseille Monoclonal antibodies against neural cell surface glycoproteins (advisor: C. Goridis)
- (NIH USA): Characterization of an antibody recognizing specifically PSA-NCAM and meningococcus group B bacteria.
- 1986 - 1992 Head of team Molecular analysis of neural cell interactions
- 1993 - 2001 Head of team Cell adhesion molecules in brain morphogenesis
- 2004 - 2011 Director of Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille-Luminy (IBDML)
- 2002 - 2011 Head at IBDML of team Axon guidance and repair
- 2012-present co-head of the team “In vivo imaging of the normal and diseased adult central nervous system”
Translational Research/Patents:
- Expert for Pasteur-Mérieux-Connaught : (1991- 2000)
- Creation of the Biotech Company “Pharmaxon SA”
Experience in research evaluation and administration:
- Deputee Director of Life Science Department CNRS (1998 - 2000)
- Member of National Committee for Science and Technology (2002 – 2005)
- Creation and Direction of the Institute for Developmental Biology of Marseille (IBDM) 2004 - 2011 (23 teams)
- Member of Scientific Advisory Boards for Neuroscience Institutes at Helsinski (Finland)
- ZMNH Hamburg (Germany), Cochin Institute (Paris) (2004 - 2014)
- President elected of French Society of Neuroscience (2004 - 2005)
- French National research agency (ANR) scientific advisor for Neurosciences 2015-present
