Patrick Charnay#
| Membership Number: | 1856 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.biologie.ens.fr/bmddsn/spip.php?article40&lang=fr |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 Coordinator of the Developmental Biology Section of the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 1997-2009 Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique
- 1993-2005 Director of the Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire du Développement, INSERM U 368, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 1989 Group leader at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
- 1984-1988 Group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Heidelberg, Germany)
- 1981-1984 Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Tom Maniatis at Harvard University (U.S.A.)
- 1977-1981 Graduate student in the laboratory of Pierre Tiollais at the Pasteur Institute (Paris)
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental neurobiology
- Peripheral nervous system
- Schwann cells
- Glial cells
- Boundary cap cells
- Myelination
- PNS-CNS segregation
- CNS patterning
- Hindbrain segmentation
- Transcription factor
- Transcriptional regulation
- Pattern formation
- Hox genes
Honours and Awards
- Prix de Paris de la Ligue Nationale Française Contre le Cancer (1988)
- Member of the EMBO (1995)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (1998)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences (2004)
