Bernard MoretBernard M.E. Moret was born in Vevey, Switzerland, received baccalauréats in Latin-Greek and Latin-Mathematics, then did a Diploma in Electrical Engineering at EPFL. After working for 2 years for Omega and Swiss Timing on the development of real-time OS for sports applications, he left for the US. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the U. of Tennessee in 1980 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico (UNM) that fall. He served as Chairman of the department from 1991 till 1993 and eventually retired in summer 2006 to join the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL. (You can read about his work at UNM on his (archived) personal and laboratory web pages at UNM.) He was appointed group leader for phylogenetics at the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB). From 2009 until his retirement, he was also in charge of the BS and MS programs in Computer Science and Associate Dean for Education. He founded the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and served as its Editor-in-Chief for 7 years; he also helped found the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), where he served as Associate Editor until 2008. He founded the annual Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) and chairs its steering committee, and he serves on the steering committee of the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX). Until summer 2008, he chaired the Biodata Management and Analysis (BDMA) study section of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH); now he is a charter member of the NIH College of Reviewers. He led a team of over 50 biologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians in the CIPRES (Cyber Infrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) project, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for US$ 12 million over 5 years. He has published nearly 150 papers in computational biology, under funding from the US NSF, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the IBM Corporation, the US NIH, the Swiss NSF, and SystemsX.ch. He is a Fellow of the ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology). His Erdös number is 2 and (as of 2020) his h-index is 48.
Freddy RadtkeEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Elia Escoffier A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Didier Surdez, Konstantin Shakhbazov, Agnieszka Anna Wendorff, April Bezdek Pomey, Rajwinder Lehal, Caroline Poisson, Luca Pellegrinet, Silvia Wirth, Fabian Junker, Monique Coersmeyer, Viktoria Reinmüller, Chhavi Jain, Delphine Tardivon, Grégory La Sala, Mateusz Waldemar Antoszewski, Linlin Cao, Amber Dawn Bowler, Morgane Fournier, Anita Bodac A co-dirigé les thèses EPFL de Bhushan Sarode, Marzia Armaro, Charlotte Urech
Sebastian MaerklEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Amogh Kumar Baranwal, Pao-Wan Lee, Seyed Saeed Mottaghi, Onur Burak Özdemir, Mengting Lyu A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Nicolas Dénervaud, Sylvie Rockel, Jean-Bernard Nobs, Arun Stephen Rajkumar, Henrike Marie Niederholtmeyer, Matthew Christopher Blackburn, Kristina Pan Woodruff, Francesca Volpetti, Ekaterina Emilova Petrova, Zoe Newell Swank, Ivan Istomin, Grégoire Michielin, Fabien Jammes, Barbora Lavickova, Hon Ming Andrew Yip, Amir Shahein, Shiyu Cheng, Laura
Lukas KühnLukas Kühn graduated in biochemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. He received his PhD in 1979 for a thesis with Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl at the University of Lausanne. After postdoctoral work in Lausanne and with Frank Ruddle at Yale University, USA, he became group leader at ISREC in 1984, was promoted senior scientist in 1988 and EPFL Adjunct Professor (professeur titulaire) in June 2008.
Bart DeplanckeEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Wenyu Liu, Théo Nass, Augoustina Maria Economou, Horia Hashimi, Timothée Ferrari, Loïc David, Laurine Cécile Florentine Van Gijn, Angelika Gebhart, Camille Lucie Germaine Lambert, Marie Denise Rumpler, Antoni Jakub Gralak, Elisa Bugani, Geoffray Marie-Devillard A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Jovan Simicevic, Carine Delattre-Gubelmann, Andreas Massouras, Irina Krier, Alina Isakova, Sebastian Martin Waszak, Rachana Narendra Pradhan, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Roel Bevers,
John McKinneyProfessor John McKinney received his Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University (New York, NY) in 1994 for studies on cell cycle regulation in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
in the laboratory of Fred Cross. From 1995 to 1998, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of William Jacobs at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx, NY), where he studied mechanisms of persistence in
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
. In 1999, he returned to Rockefeller University to establish his own laboratory as an Assistant (1999-2004) and then Associate (2004-2007) Professor. In July 2007, the lab relocated to the Global Health Institute in the School of Life Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, where McKinney is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Microbiology and Microsystems (LMIC). Our research focuses on understanding the mechanistic basis of bacterial persistence in the context of host immunity and antimicrobial therapy, using
M. tuberculosis
as a "model" system.
Giovanni DietlerEnseignement et PhD A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Lilia Chtcheglova, Mélanie Favre, Erika Ercolini, Susana del Carmen Tobenas Borron, Mounir Driss Mensi, Guillaume Witz, Kanat Dukenbayev, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy, Jae Sun Jeong, Fabrizio Benedetti, Andrea Cerreta, Andrey Mikhaylov, Aleksandre Japaridze, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Ekaterina Rostova, Petar Stupar, Wojciech Chomicki, Anton Smirnov, Jiangtao Zhou
Matteo Dal PeraroEnseignement et PhD Doctorant·es actuel·les Verena Rukes, Parth Bibekar, Arthur Samurkas, Fernando Augusto Teixeira Pinto Meireles, Benedikt Singer, Artemiy Burov, Ekaterina Pyatova, Edoardo Cavani, Alissa Agerova, Marianna Mitsioni, Jana Susanne Anton, Roxana Ghasemi A dirigé les thèses EPFL de Matteo Thomas Degiacomi, Thomas Lemmin, Enrico Spiga, Christophe Bovigny, Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres, Martina Audagnotto, Giorgio Elikem Tamo, Alexandra Styliani Kalantzi, Deniz Aydin, Giulia Fonti, Alessio Prunotto,