David Tollervey - Curriculum Vitae#
Present Position:
- Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of RNA Biology; University of Edinburgh
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Professional career:
- 2011 - 2021 Director, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh
- 1988 - 1997 Group-leader. EMBL, Heidelberg
- 1984 - 1988 Chargé de Recherche I. Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1981 - 1983 Postdoctoral fellow; Laboratory of Chris Guthrie. University of California, San Francisco
- 1977 - 1980 PhD in Genetics. Supervisor: Herb Arst. University of Cambridge
- 1973 - 1977 BSc. (Hons) in Microbiology. University of Edinburgh
Honours:
- Member of EMBO, 1998
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London, 2004
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2004
- Elected President of the RNA Society, 2007 - 2008
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Toulouse, 2008
- Biochemical Society Novartis Medal and Prize, 2016
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, 2016
- Mendel Medal, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 2017
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2022
External roles:
- Scientific Advisory Board; Centre for Integrative Biology, Toulouse, France 2015
- Science and Impact Advisory Committee; Babraham Instutute, Cambridge 2021
- L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) evaluation committee: Paris, France 2022
- HHMI Fellowship review panel 2023
Current Editorial Board Memberships:
- Molecular Cell; EMBO Reports; Molecular and Cellular Biology; RNA; RNA Biology; PeerJ
Recent invited presentations:
- Invited seminar: Brimingham University, May 2022
- Invited presenation: Ribosome synthesis 2022, Engleberg, Switzerland, August 2022
- Invited seminar: RNA Summer School, Brno, Czechia, September 2022
- Invited presenation: RiboClub 2022, Quebec, Canada, September 2022
- Invited presenation: University of California San Francisco, USA, October 2022
- Invited seminar: Insitut Pasteur, Paris, November 2022
