Anne Houdusse#
| Membership Number: | 3611 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://umr144.curie.fr/en/profile/anne-houdusse-001153 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Senior Research Director (1st class CNRS) – UMR 144 – Institut Curie, FRANCE
- 2004-2009 Senior group leader – Research Director 2nd class CNRS – UMR 144 – Institut Curie, FRANCE
- 1999-2003 Young team leader – Chargé de recherche 1st class CNRS – UMR 144 – Institut Curie, FRANCE
- 1992-1998 Post-doctoral Fellow in Carolyn COHEN’s laboratory, Brandeis University – MA, USA
- 1991-1992 Teaching assistant in Protein Crystallography, Université Paris Sud, FRANCE
- 1990-1992 PhD student in crystallography in Roberto POLJAK’s lab, Institut Pasteur – Paris, FRANCE
Fields of Scholarship
- Molecular motors : myosin, kinesin, dynein
- Cytoskeleton
- Muscle contraction
- Force production
- Structural biology - crystallography
- Intracellular traffic -
- small GTPases
- Function and regulation derived from allosteric rearrangements
- Biophysical studies
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2013 Elected EMBO member
- 2013 CNRS Silver medal winner
- 2010 FEBS National Lecturer, Poland, September 2010
- 2010 Award winner for one of the three subventions of the Simone and Cino del Duca Foundation
- 2009 EMBO/FEBS Women in science Award
- 2005 FEBS Award: FEBS Anniversary Prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Structural Biology.
- 2004 CNRS Bronze medal winner
- 2003 Invited speaker for the « New and Notable » symposium of the 47th annual congress of the Biophysical Society
- 1998 Award winner for the ATIPE Competition organized for the establishment of young group leaders
- 1993-1995 Long-term Research Fellowship from HFSPO and from EMBO
- 1986 Admission to Ecole Normale Supérieure ULM, Paris (success at the highly selective entrance examination)
