Joachim Lingner#
| Membership Number: | 5337 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.epfl.ch/labs/lingner-lab |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2853-5803 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Full Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2005 - 2008 Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
- 2002 Senior group leader, ISREC, Switzerland
- 1997 - 2001 Junior group leader, ISREC, Switzerland
- 1993 - 1997 Postdoc, HHMI, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA (with Thomas Cech)
- 1989 - 1992 PhD student, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland (with Walter Keller)
Fields of Scholarship
- Telomeres
- Telomerase
- Long noncoding RNA
- DNA damage response
- DNA repair
- DNA replication
- Genome stability
- Oxidative stress
- RNA
Honours and Awards
- 2008 ERC advanced investigator grant
- 2005 EMBO member
- 2002 Friedrich Miescher Prize
- 1997 START-fellowship (Swiss Talents for Academic Research and Teaching) from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 1995 Postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
- 1993 EMBO long-term postdoctoral fellowship
