A. Francis Stewart#
| Membership Number: | 5452 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/research/stewart |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4754-1707 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - now W3 Professor of Genomics, Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden
- 2014 - 2017 Director and W3 Professor of Genomics, Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden
- 2005 - now W3 Professor of Genomics, Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden
- 2001- 2004 C4 Professor of Genomics, Biotechnology Center, Technische Universität Dresden and guest group leader Max-Planck-Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
- 2000 - now Founder and Chair, Gene Bridges GmbH
- 1991 - 2001 Group Leader, Gene Expression Program, European Molecular Biology Laboratories, Heidelberg
- 1985 - 1990 Post-doc/Gastwissenschaftler, Deutches KrebsForschungZentrum, Heidelberg
- 1981 - 1985 PhD student, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Fields of Scholarship
- Chromatin
- Epigenetics
- Histone post-translational modifications
- Trithorax-Group
- Mammalian development
- Stem cell biology
- Haematopoiesis
- Genetic engineering
- Site specific and homologous recombination
- Gene switches
Honours and Awards
- 2019 - 2020 Beaufort Visiting Scholar, St John's College, Cambridge, UK
- 2015 - ongoing Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute, for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
- 2016- 2018 Visiting Professor, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- 2012 - 2016 Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Melbourne ,Australia
- 2010 - 2016 main organizer, EU FP 7th Framework Integrated Program, Systems Biology of Stem Cells (SyBoSS)
- 2010 Awarded International Society for Transgenic Technology annual prize
- 2007 Elected EMBO Fellow
- 1985 - 1986 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
- 1980 1st class Honours, School of Biochemistry, University of New South Wales
