Lucia Baldi Unser01/2021 - present Deputy to the Associate VP for Research / Deputy to the Associate VP for Centers & Platforms, EPFL06/2017 - 12/2020 Deputy to the Dean, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ;01/2015 - 11/2017 Lecturer/Communication and outreach manager at the School of Life Sciences, EPFL04/1998 - 03/2015: Research and Teaching Associate/Lecturer, Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences; 01/1994 - 07/1997: Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;1991 - 1994: Research Fellow, Laboratory of Pediatric Oncology, G. Gaslini Scientific Institute, Genova, Italy;1987 - 1990: Research Fellow, Clinical Immunology and Immunogenetics Dept., Nat. Inst. for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy.
David HackerExpertise
Animal cell cultivationTransient transfectionStable cell line generationExpression vector designProtein purification
Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Agata Oberbek, Yashas Rajendra, Xiao Shen, Dominique Terry Monteil Jr, Sowmya Balasubramanian Courses Recombinant protein expression in animal cells for appli-cations in medicine and structural biology BIO-701 Cultivated animal cells are important hosts for the production of recombinant proteins for biochemical and
Graham KnottGraham Knott received his degree in physiology from the University of Southampton, UK, in 1990, and his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Tasmania, Australia, in 1995. He moved to the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 1999 where he researched the plasticity of neuronal connectivity in the adult brain, developing correlative light and electron microscopy methods for the analysis of in vivo imaged neurons. In 2006 Graham joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, establishing the Bio Electron Microscopy Facility and has continued his research interests in brain plasticity and 3D electron microscopy.
Johan AuwerxJohan Auwerx is Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he occupies the Nestle Chair in Energy Metabolism. Dr. Auwerx has been using molecular physiology and systems genetics to understand metabolism in health, aging and disease. Much of his work focused on understanding how diet, exercise and hormones control metabolism through changing the expression of genes by altering the activity of transcription factors and their associated cofactors. His work was instrumental for the development of agonists of nuclear receptors - a particular class of transcription factors - into drugs, which now are used to treat high blood lipid levels, fatty liver, and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Auwerx was amongst the first to recognize that transcriptional cofactors, which fine-tune the activity of transcription factors, act as energy sensors/effectors that influence metabolic homeostasis. His research validated these cofactors as novel targets to treat metabolic diseases, and spurred the clinical use of natural compounds, such as resveratrol, as modulators of these cofactor pathways.
Johan Auwerx was elected as a member of EMBO in 2003 and is the recipient of a dozen of international scientific prizes, including the Danone International Nutrition Award, the Oskar Minkowski Prize, and the Morgagni Gold Medal. His work is highly cited by his peers with a h-factor of over 100. He is an editorial board member of several journals, including Cell Metabolism, Molecular Systems Biology, The EMBO Journal, Journal of Cell Biology, Cell, and Science. Dr. Auwerx co-founded a handful of biotech companies, including Carex, PhytoDia, and most recently Mitobridge, and has served on several scientific advisory boards.
Dr. Auwerx received both his MD and PhD in Molecular Endocrinology at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium. He was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Departments of Medicine and Genetics of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Sandra Eloise KjeldsenPositions
2008- : Laborantine (Laboratoire du Pr D. Trono), Laboratoire de virologie et génétique, EPFL, Suisse.
2004-2008: Laborantine (Laboratoire du Pr A. Trumpp), ISREC, Suisse.
2004: Assistante de recherche (Laboratoire du Pr G. Corradin), Institut de Biochimie, Université de Lausanne, Suisse.
Éducation
1999 - 2004:
Diplôme en Biologie (spécialités : Immunologie, Biochimie et Pharmacologie)
Université de Lausanne, Suisse.
Juin 1999:
Baccalauréat Scientifique, France. Giovanna AmbrosiniCurrent Position Senior Scientist, School of Life Sciences, Bioinformatics Competence Center, école Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne.Senior bioinformatician and software engineer with proven experience working in higher education institutions. Solid experience in scientific computing and web design. Proficient in physics and computational genomics, with a focus on high-throughput genomic sequencing data analysis (ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, and exome sequencing) and other types of
