Dirk Schübeler#
Membership Number: | 3396 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Homepage(s): | http://www.fmi.ch/schuebeler.d |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Senior Group Leader FMI, Basel, Switzerland
- 2003 Junior Group Leader Friedrich-Miescher-Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland
- 1998-2003 Postdoctoral fellow with Mark Groudine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
- 1995-1998 Graduate student with J. Bode, German Research Center for Biotechnology (GBF) Braunschweig, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Gene regulation
- Chromatin
- DNA methylation
- Genomics
- Epigenomics
Honours and Awards
- Graduate fellowship Foundation of the german chemical industry (VCI) (1995-1997)
- “Förderpreis” of the GBF, thesis award (1997)
- Postdoctoral fellowship Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (1998-2000)
- Postdoctoral fellowship Rett syndrome research foundation (RSRF) (2000-2002)
- „Newly established team“, Network of excellence (NoE) „The Epigenome“ (2006)
- EMBO young investigator (2006)
- Friedrich-Miescher-Price of the Swiss Societey for Biochemistry (2007)
- European Research Council (ERC) starting investigator grant (2008)
- Privatdozent University of Basel (2009)
- EMBO member (2009)
- Adjunct Professor University of Basel (2011)
- VIVA award (Novartis leading Scientist (2011)
- Election to Academia Europaea (2012)
- ESCI Award for Excellence in Basic/Translational Research (2014)