Elisa Izaurralde - Curriculum Vitae#
Obituary
, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
A) EDUCATION
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Undergraduate studies
- 1979-1985: Undergraduate studies at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Degree: "Diplôme of Biochemistry” and "Certificat de spécialisation en Biologie Moléculaire"
PhD
- 1985-1989: Postgraduate studies at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. U.K. Laemmli. Degree: Doctor of Sciences (PhD).
Postdoctoral training
- 1989-September 1990: Postdoctoral research at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. U.K. Laemmli
- October 1990-1996: Postdoctoral research at the EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. I.W. Mattaj
B) Educational contributions
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I have trained 35 post-docs, 25 PhD students and 52 undergraduate students.
C) Participation and Organization of conferences (conferences to which I was invited as a speaker or chair are not included)
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- Co-organizer of the RNA Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, June 22 - 27, 2010
- Co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Translational control meeting, CSH, USA, September 13 - 17, 2010
- Organizer of the EMBO/EMBL Symposia: “The non-coding genome”, Heidelberg, Germany, October 13 - 17, 2010
- Organizer of the Keystone Symposium, Mechanism and Biology of Silencing, Monterey, California, March 20 - 25, 2011
- L'Oreal Plenary Lecture at the 34th Congress of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), Barcelona, Spain, September 5 - 8, 2011
- Co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Non-coding RNAs, CSH, USA, September 11 - 15, 2012
- Plenary lecture at the EMBO Meeting 2012, Nice, France, September 22 - 25, 2012
- Organizer of the EMBO/EMBL Symposia: “The non-coding genome”, Heidelberg, Germany, October 9 - 12, 2013
- Co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Non-coding RNAs, CSH, USA, August 26 - 30, 2014
- Organizer of the EMBO/EMBL Symposia: “The non-coding genome”, Heidelberg, Germany, October 18 - 21, 2015
- Co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Non-coding RNAs, CSH, USA, August 23 - 27, 2016
D) Editorial positions
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- 2006 – 2009: Member of the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biology
- 2006 – 2009: Member of the Highlights Advisory Panel for Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
- 2004 – 2010: Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Cell Biology
- 2005 - 2011: Member of the editorial board of the RNA Journal
- 2007– 2011: Editor of FEBS Journal
- Since 2007: Member of the Advisory Editorial Board for the EMBO Journal
- Since 2007: Member of the Advisory Editorial Board for the EMBO Reports
- Since 2011: Editor of the RNA Journal
- Since 2012: ELife Board of reviewing editors
- Since 2014: PLOS Biology Editorial Board
E) Scientific Advisory boards/ Panels
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- 2001–2005: Member of the review Committee for HFSPO long term Fellowships
- 2003–2008: Member of the review panel for the ATIPE fellowships, France
- 2005–2009: Member of the review panel for the EMBO Young Investigator Program
- 2011–2013: Panel Member in the ERC-2011-Advanced Grants
- 2014 Chair the Molecular and Structural Biology, Biochemistry panel of the ATIPE-Avenir Program, France
- 2015 Member of the external evaluation committee of the Institute of Biochemistry at the ETH, Zurich
- Since 2005: Member of the review panel for the Max Planck Independent Junior Research Groups
- Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
- Since 2015: Panel Chair of the LS1 Advanced Grant Panel of the European Research Council
