!!Thomas Lecuit - Curriculum Vitae \\ __Education:__ \\ *Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), 1991\\ *PhD, Univ of Paris 1998\\ \\ __Research and Professional experience:__ \\ *Research Director CNRS, 2006-present, IBDM, CNRS & Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France\\ *Visiting Professor, NCBS, Bangalore, 2011\\ *Research Associate CNRS, 2001-2006, IBDM, Marseille, France\\ *Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-2001, Princeton Univ., USA, (with E. Wieschaus).\\ *PhD thesis, 1995-1998, EMBL, Heidelberg (with S. Cohen).\\ *MSc, 1994. Rockefeller University, New York, USA. (with C. Desplan).\\ \\ __Scientific Responsibilities:__ \\ *Principal Investigator, IBDM, Marseille, France. Since 2001.\\ *Director of Labex INFORM research network, Marseille, France. Since 2012.\\ *Director of LIA (Laboratoire International Associé), IBDM-NCBS. Since 2014.\\ \\ __Editorial activities:__ \\ *Editor of Development (since 2008).\\ *Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) of Science (since 2014)\\ \\ __Reviewing activities:__ \\ *Journals: mostly Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Developmental Cell, Current Biology, Journal of Cell Biology.\\ *Grant agencies: International: ERC, HFSP, EMBO; UK: Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC; USA: NSF, and other countries (Switzerland, Israel, Singapore, Netherlands etc).\\ \\ __Scientific committees:__\\ __Panel member of:__ \\ *European Research Council, Starting Grant, LS3, since 2011.\\ *ATIP/AVENIR (CNRS-INSERM) Starting Grant, LS3, since 2008. Panel chair in 2014. \\ *Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) (SVSE2), in 2013.\\ *Swiss National Science Foundation, Systems Biology, since 2013.\\ *Interface Research Grant Physics-Chemistry-Biology at CNRS in 2007-2008.\\ \\ __Conferences/Lectures:__ \\ *Organization: \\ **EMBO Workshop ‘Epithelial polarity in development and disease’ march 2004, Carry le Rouet, France. \\ **EMBO Lecture course ‘Mesoscopic origins of cell behavior during morphogenesis’, april 2012, in Cargese, France.\\ **Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology, 22 july- 24 august 2013, KITP, Santa Barbara (Course **Director with B. Shraiman, E. Paluch and J. Rothman)\\ **1st Conference on Quantitative Biology of Signalling. Cargese, October 21-25 2013.\\ *Session chair: ASCB meeting (2005, 2011), ELSO Conference (2005), EMBO Conference (2012) and EDRC meeting (2008).\\ *Invitation to over 80 conferences and 60 seminars/lectures since 2001, including 5 Plenary lectures.