Mario De Bono#
| Membership Number: | 5599 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://ist.ac.at/en/research/de-bono-group/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-8347-0443 |
Present and Previous Positions
- From 2019 Professor Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
- 2004 - 2019 Tenured Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- 1999 - 2004 Tenure-track Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
- 1997 - 1999 Research Associate Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, USA (with Cori Bargmann)
- 1995 - 1997 Wellcome Trust Travelling Prize Fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, USA (with Cori Bargmann)
Fields of Scholarship
- C. elegans genetics
- Neuronal mechanisms of behavior
- Learning and memory
- Cellular and molecular neuroscience
- Evolution of behavior
- Neuronal networks
- Neuropeptides
- Neuronal plasticity
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - 2023 Wellcome Investigator Award
- 2011 - 2017 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2011 - 2014 CoEN Award (Centre of Excellence in Neurodegeneration)
- 2006 - 2008 Human Frontiers Science Program Organization grant
- 2007 Elected to EMBO
- 2005 The Balfour Lecture, The Genetics Society, UK
- 2004 Max Perutz Prize, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
- 1995 Wellcome Trust Prize Travelling Fellowship
- 1990 Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship
- 1990 External Research Studentship, Trinity College, Univ. Cambridge
- 1990 Overseas Research Studentship, UK.
- 1990 Jamieson Prize (Best Mol. Biol. degree), Glasgow Univ., UK
