Marion LeleuExpertise
Bioinformatics, Genomics, High-Throughput Sequencing, Data Mining
Mission
Provide advanced and personalised support and consulting in bioinformatics and biostatistics for the scientific community of EPFL, UNIL, and other Institutes.Her main areas of interest and expertise include but are not limited to, genomics, transcriptomics and epigenetics, with a strong interest in integrating multiple modalities, and choosing the appropriate statistical models, to gain a comprehensive understanding of compl
Benjamin Marcel Daniel RothéInterests - Ribonucleoparticles biogenesis- Regulation of mRNA translation- Protein phase separation Education PhD | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2007 – 2012 University of Lorraine - Nancy I - FRANCE
Elisa OricchioExpertise
Cancer geneticsMouse modelsTherapyStem cellsLymphoma
Teaching & PhD PhD Students Vamsi Krishna Polavarapu, Asli Ece Kasapoglu, Konstantina Georgakopoulou, Eleni Balli Past EPFL PhD Students Maria Christine Donaldson, Elena Battistello, Daniel Pereira Duarte, Frédérica Schyrr, Ruxandra-Andreea Lambuta, Aaron Simone Petruzzella, Jixing Zhong, Justine Epiney Courses Cancer biology I BIO-471 The course covers in detail molecular mechanisms of cancer development with emphasis on cell
Luciano Andres AbriataExpertise
Protein NMRNMR of paramagnetic systemsMetalloproteinsBiomolecular SpectroscopyStructural BiologyStructural BioinformaticsMolecular Modeling
ResearchPapers Link to Google Scholar
Teaching & PhD Courses Basic and advanced NMR - Level 1 A (EPFL) CH-601(x) Basic theoretical and experimental aspects of NMR will be taught. Students will be familarized with modern NMR spectrometers. Basic and advanced NMR - Level 2 (EPFL) CH-703 The goal is to give a sound theoretical an
Suliana ManleyFrom 2016 Associate professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009-2016 Tenure-track assistant professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006-2009 Post-Doctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2004-2006 Post-Doctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1999-2004 PhD (Physics) Awarded 06/2004, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
1993-1997 Bachelors (Cum Laude) Physics & Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Francesco StellacciFrancesco Stellacci graduated in Materials Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1998 with a thesis on photochromic polymers with Prof. Giuseppe Zerbi and Mariacarla Gallazzi. In 1999 he moved to the Chemistry Department of the University of Arizona for as a post-doc in the group of Joe Perry in close collaboration with the group of Seth Marder. In 2002 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He was then promoted to associate without (2006) and with tenure (2009). In 2010 he moved to the Institute of Materials at EPFL as a full Professor. He holds the Alcan EP Chair. Francesco was one of the recipients of the Technology Review TR35 "35 Innovator under 35" award in 2005, and the Popular Science Magazine "Brilliant 10" award in 2007. He has been a Packard Fellow starting 2005.
Beat FierzTeaching & PhD PhD Students Paria Khalafi, Wei Cai, Pierre Alexander Miranda Herrera, Andrei Zhauniarovich, Matteo Nicolas Doudin, Zongqing Li, Enguerran Majerus, Po-Han Chang, Iana Berlina, Yuji Kamei Past EPFL PhD Students Aurore Marie-France Delachat, Sinan Kilic, Louise Catherine Bryan, Andreas Linus Bachmann, Ninad Dilip Agashe, Nora Guidotti, Maxime Nicolas Mivelaz, Kristina Makasheva, Alexandra Teslenko, Pauline Franz, Salome Riccarda Püntener, Ly Phillippe Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Dani
Jacques FellayJacques Fellay is a medical scientist with expertise in infectious diseases and human genomics. He obtained his MD from the University of Lausanne in 2002 and his PhD from University of Utrecht. After a clinical training in infectious diseases in Switzerland and a 4-years postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University, he joined the EPFL in April 2011 with an SNF Professorship.
On top of his EPFL affiliation, Jacques is also Head of Precision Medicine at the University Hospital (CHUV) in Lausanne, Group Leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and Co-director of the Health2030 Genome Center at Campus Biotech in Geneva.
Duncan-Bruce SutherlandExpertise
Intestinal immunology & archaea probiotics
Mission
Advance R&D on the role of archaea-bacteria in human microbiota.
Melanie BlokeschMelanie Blokesch holds a PhD degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University (USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology) she joined EPFL as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor (tenured) in 2016. In 2018, Melanie Blokesch was nominated as new member of the the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) National Research Council (starting date: April 2019). Melanie Blokesch is also an elected member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM; since 2018) and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO; since 2019). Among other awards and grants, Melanie Blokesch has been honored with the Prize for Junior Scientists of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, an ERC Starting Grant in 2012, the EPFL teaching award "Polysphère" for best teacher in the School of Life Sciences (academic year 2014-2015), the Research Award by the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM; Germany) in 2015, and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2016. In 2017, Melanie Blokesch was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholarship.
