Francois Schweisguth#
| Membership Number: | 4297 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/drosophila-developmental-genetics |
Present and Previous Positions
- Senior Scientist at the CNRS (Directeur de Recherche Classe Exceptionnelle)
- Director of the CNRS Unit UMR3738, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- Director of the Dept of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- Head of the GDD Unit, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- Co-coordinator of the LabEX Revive, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- 2011 - 2015 Director of the CNRS Unit URA2578, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- 2010 - 2012 Adjunct-Director, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- 2004 - 2006 Adjunct-Director of the UMR8542, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
- 1997 - 2008 Junior/Senior Group Leader, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
- 1993 - 1996 Junior CNRS Scientist, Institut Jacques Monod (Paris)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cell and Developmental Biology in Drosophila
- Notch signaling
- Asymmetric cell division
- Cell polarity
- Epithelium morphogenesis
- Planar cell polarity
- Endocytosis/membrane trafficking
- Developmental patterning
- Quantitative live imaging
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Charles-Leopold Mayer Prize from the French Academy of Science
- 2012 EMBO member
- 2012 Zermati Prize from the Fondation de France
- 2006 Silver Medal of the CNRS
- 2005 Jaffé Prize from the French Academy of Science
- 1996 Bronze Medal of the CNRS
- 1991 HFSP fellowship
