Scientific Advisory Board
Composed of eight international experts, the Scientific Advisory Board is consulted on the scientific strategy of the Institut Jacques Monod and assists the management in the preparation of the five-year contract and the HCERES report of the Institute, as well as in the evaluation of applications to the calls for leader groups.
PRESIDENT
Philippe Pasero, Institut de Génétique Humaine (IGH) – Montpellier
Philippe Pasero is director of the Institute of Human Genetics (IGH), Principal Investigator (DR1 Inserm) and is leading the team “Maintenance of genome integrity during DNA replication”.
MEMBRES
Yves Barral, ETH – Zurich
Yves Barral obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 from the Pierre und Marie Curie University in Paris. He then went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Biology, Yale University (New Haven, USA) up until July 1999, focussing on the regulation of cellular morphogenese during cell division. At the ETH Prof. Barral will continue working on the coordination of the cytoskeleton and the cell cycle in yeast. He will also develop new genetic techniques to address related issues in the multicellular Nematode C.elegans.
Buzz Baum, University College London (UCL) – London
Buzz Baum studied Biochemistry at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. He did his PhD (1993-1997) with Paul Nurse at Cancer Research UK, UCL. From 1997-2001, he joined Norbert Perrimon at Harvard Medical School. In 2001, he was awarded a Royal Society URF at UCL and he was appointed as a group leader at UCL’s MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology in 2007. He was appointed Professor of Cell Biology in 2011. Since 2018, he has also been the director of the Institute for the Physics of Living Systems (IPLS).
Anne Ephrussi, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) – Heidelberg
Anne Ephrussi is director of EICAT, Head of developmental Biology Unit.
Evelyn Houliston, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement de Villefranche-sur-mer (LBDV)
Evelyn Houliston is in charge of the team “Cnidarian Developmental Mechanisms”.
Gijsje Koenderink, Bionanoscience Department, TU Delft
Prof. Dr. Gijsje Koenderink is full professor of cell biophysics at TU Delft where she heads an experimental research group aiming to understand the physical mechanisms that enable cells and tissues to combine mechanical strength with the ability to actively generate forces and change shape. Her team combines concepts and methods from soft matter physics, biophysics, synthetic biology, and mechanobiology. Her research also extends to biomedical implications of abnormal cell/tissue mechanics for cancer metastasis, fibrosis, and thrombosis.
Maria Leptin, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) – Heidelberg
Director of EMBO and Group Leader at EMBL from 2010 to 2021, Maria Leptin is now President of the European Research Council (ERC)
François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur – Paris
Francois Schweisguth is the Director of the CNRS UMR3738 (since 2011), the head of the BDCS Dept (since 2016), a co-coordinator the Labex REVIVE (since 2011) and a co-director of a Pasteur/REVIVE course on Stem Cell Biology (since 2013). His research focuses on the cell biology of Notch, the role of self-organization in the formation of developmental patterns, the control of cell fate and the regulation of epithelial morphogenesis using Drosophila as a model system.
Erin Schuman, MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Giorgio Scita, IFOM – Milano
Cell biologist and expert on the dynamics of cell movement, Giorgio Scita directs the Mechanisms of Tumor Cell Migration research unit at IFOM.
Bertrand Séraphin, Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC) – Strasbourg
Bertrand Séraphin is CNRS Research Director at the IGBMC. He has received numerous national and international awards, including a nomination for “European Inventor of the Year” from the European Patent Office in 2008, the CNRS Silver Medal in 2007, and the Pierce Prize from the International Society for Molecular Recognition in 2005. He was elected a member of EMBO in 2000. He was also awarded the Emilia Valori Prize of the Academy of Sciences in 2014.
