Laszlo Tora - Curriculum Vitae#
Qualification:
- Diploma of Biology (MSc, 1982) at Eötvös Loránd University of Natural Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
- Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the same university (1985), Hungary
Positions and Employment:
- Ph.D. work at Frédéric Joliot Curie National Institute for Radiobiology, Budapest (Hungary) between 1981- 1985, under the direction of Dr. Istvàn Financsek and Prof. Egon J. Hidvégi
- Post-doctoral fellow at LGME/CNRS-U184, Institute de Chimie Biologie-Université Louis Pasteur, (1985-1988), under the direction of Dr. Maria Bellard
- Post-doctoral fellow at LGME/CNRS-U184, Institute de Chimie Biologie-Université Louis Pasteur, (1988-1992), under the direction of Prof. Pierre Chambon
- Group Leader at IGBMC (Strasbourg, France); since 1994
- Instructor at Eukaryotic Gene Expression Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA; 2004-2006
- Coordinator of the Transcription department of IGBMC, 2002-2005
- In charge of the Proteomic facility at IGBMC; 2000-2005
- “Délégués scientifiques” at the “Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur” (AERES) between 2007 and 2008
- Lee Wee Nam Visiting professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2013
- Research director (exceptional class 1, DRCE1 at CNRS) at IGBMC, Strasbourg (France) since 2011
Plenary Lectures:
- at Teikuko Hormone MFG. Co. LTD. Meeting on Cancer and Hormone (1996), Tokyo (Japan)
- at MRI-TMDU International Symposium on Molecular Medicine Tokyo (2002), (Japan)
- EMBO Lecture (2002) at the 4th Italian Life Science society meeting at Riva del Garda (Italy)
- at 77e Congrés de l’ACFAS (2009), Université d’Ottawa (Canada)
- Lee Wee Nam Public Lecture (2013) at the Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, Singapore
Editorial Board member:
- EMBO Journal (since 2007)
- EMBO Reports (2007-2014)
- Transcription (since 2010)
- Epigenomes (since 2014)
Academic Editor:
- PLoS ONE (since 2006)
- Reviewing Editor: JBC (since July 2015)