Silvia Arber#
Photo: Lucian Hunziker
| Membership Number: | 3758 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/groups-platforms/overview/unit/arber https://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/?group=2 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Full Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum & Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland).
- 2004 Associate Professor for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum & Senior Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland).
- 2000 Assistant Professor Tenure Track for Neurobiology/Cell Biology at the Biozentrum/Friedrich Miescher Institute (Basel, Switzerland).
- 1996 Postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Prof. T.M. Jessell, Columbia University, HHMI, New York.
- 1992 Graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. P. Caroni at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel: "Activity-sensitive signaling at the neuromuscular junction."
- 1990 Diploma thesis in the laboratory of Dr. P. Caroni at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel.
- 1987 Biology II study at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel with graduation in Cell Biology.
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and diversification
- Neuronal circuit development, connectivity and function
- Motor system development and function
- Sensory-motor connectivity
- Transcription factor programs regulating neuronal specification
- Spinal cord injury
- Mouse genetics
- Neuronal circuit tracing by application of viral tools
- Mouse behavior
Honours and Awards
- 2022 The Brain Prize
- 2020 Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- 2019 Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture
- 2018 Pradel Research Award
- 2014 City of Basel Research Award
- 2014 Otto Naegeli Preis for Medical Research
- 2010 - 2015 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2008 Friedrich Miescher Award
- 2005 Schellenberg Prize for Research on cellular and molecular processes involved in spinal cord development, plasticity and regeneration.
- 2005 EMBO Member
- 2004 Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences – Member (Einzelmitglied der Akademie)
- 2003 European Eppendorf Young Investigator Award
- 2003 Nationaler Latsispreis
- 2001 EMBO Young Investigator Award
- 1999 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) tenth anniversary award for young investigators
- 1997 Pfizer Forschungs-Preis 1998, for the work “MLP-deficient mice exhibit a disruption of cardiac cytoarchitectural organization, dilated cardiomyopathy, and heart failure”.
- 1997 Fakultätspreis der Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Basel (Prize for the best thesis of the year awarded by the faculty, Basel, Switzerland).
- 1996 E. Fisher prize for the best thesis of the year at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
