!!Ramesh Shanmughom Pillai - Curriculum Vitae
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[Full CV|https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/ramesh-pillai/overview]\\
[Full list of publications|https://mocel.unige.ch/research-groups/ramesh-pillai/papers]\\
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__EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS__
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*1988 - 1990  Pre-University education at schools in Trivandrum, Kerala state, India. \\
*1990 - 1993   BSc (Botany), University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India. \\
*1994 - 1996  MSc (Biotechnology), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. \\
*1996 - 1998   PhD program of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (Discontinued)\\
*1998 - 2002  PhD at the Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.\\
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__SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS__ 
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*Current 4 Postdocs/ 5 PhD students. \\
*Supervised so far: 9 PhD students and 13 postdocs\\
*Former members: Simon Conn (Professor,  Flinders University, Australia), Hao Wu (Professor, CAS, China), Mateusz Mendel (PI, Roche, Switzerland), Zhaolin Yang (Staff Scientist, Broad Institute, USA)
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__TEACHING ACTIVITIES__ 
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2016 Total teaching of 29 h/year. Teaching (in French) at Bachelor (3rd year) Molecular Biology (21h), (in English) at Masters level (6h), and lectures to PhD students (2h). 29 hours/year total at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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__MEMBERSHIP OF REVIEW PANELS__
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*SAB of IGH, Montpellier (since 2023)\\
*ERC Consolidator Grant Review Panel (since 2019, panel chair since 2021)\\
*Member, Global Investigator Network committee, EMBO (2019-2021)\\
*Reviewing for EMBO Fellowships, EMBO Young Investigator Program (since 2017)\\
*SAB of IAB, Grenoble. Nov 2017, June 2019\\
*HCERES Review of IBENS (Institute de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Superieure) (Dec 2017)\\
*HCERES Review of IGH, Montpellier (March 2020)
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__MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS__
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*Member of the EMBO (since June 2017)\\
*Lifetime Member of the The RNA Society (since 2006)\\
*Editorial board of Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) (since 2015)\\
*Editorial Board of RNA (since June 2018)\\
*Visiting Professor, IROAST, University of Kumamoto, Japan (since Oct 2016 - 2023)
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__ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES __
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*2024 Co-organizer, PIWI and piRNAs Meeting, Montpellier, France\\
*2023 Co-organizer, Keystone Symposia RNA Modifications in Health and Disease, Banff, Canada\\
*2023 Co-organizer Swiss RNA Workshop, Bern, Switzerland (annual event)\\
*2020 & 2022  Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany \\
*2019-2021 Co-organizer, Gene Regulation Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland\\
*2018 Co-organizer, Complex Life of RNA, EMBO-EMBL Symposia, 450 participants, EMBL, Germany\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit rpillai}][{ALLOW upload rpillai}][{ALLOW comment All}]