Gasser Lab Collaborators
Alumni
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View by position held: All – PhD Student – Postdoc – Guest Scientist – Technical Research Associate – Masters Student – Postdoctoral Fellow – Sabbatical Guest – Secretary – MD-PhD Student

Gian-Carlo Alghisi
Email: giancarlo.alghisi@gmail.com
Position held: PhD Student, PhD 1996
Current position: Project head, Alpiq InTec Romandie SA, Renewable Energy, Lausanne, Switzerland

Bruno Amati
Email: bruno.amati@ieo.eu
Position held: PhD Student, 1986- 1990, PhD 1990
Current position: Professor and Institute Head, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

Lotte Bjergbaek
Email: lbj@mbg.au.dk
Position held: Postdoc, 2001- 2005
Current position: Professor and Lab Head, Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Marek Blaszczyk
Email: si.qua.fata.sinant@gmail.com
Position held: Guest Scientist, 2001 - 2003
Current position: Patent Examiner at European Patent Office, Munich, Germany

Diego Braguglia
Email: diego@braguglia.com
Position held: PhD Student, PhD 1995
Current position: VI Partners AG, Zug, Switzerland

Kerstin Bystricky
Email: kerstin@ibcg.biotoul.fr
Position held: Postdoc, August 2001 - July 2004
Current position: Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire Eucaryote, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Maria Elena Cardenas
Email: carde004@mc.duke.edu
Position held: Postdoc, September 1988 - December 1990
Current position: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA

Jennifer Cobb
Email: jcobb@ucalgary.ca
Position held: Postdoc, 2000 - 2005
Current position: Lab Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, Calgary, Canada

Moira Cockell
Email: info@alwrite.ch
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 1991 - 2001
Current position: Scientific Writing and Editing Services, Alwrite, Savigny, Switzerland

Fabien Cubizolles
Email: fabien.cubizolles@unibas.ch
Position held: Postdoc, February 2000 - August 2004
Current position: Growth and Development, Research Group of Prof. Erich A. Nigg, Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland

Qi Dang
Position held: Masters Student
Current position: Systemix, Inc. Gene Therapy, California, USA

Niloofar Davoodi
Position held: Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007 – 2011
Current Position: Senior Quality Compliance Manager, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel.

Vincent Dion
Email: Vincent.dion@unil.ch
Position held: Postdoc, 2008-2013
Current position: SNF professorship, Centre Integrative du Genomique, University of Lausanne, Lausanne Switzerland

Karine Dubrana
Email: karine.dubrana@cea.fr
Position held: Postdoc, 1999-2003
Current position: at Lab. Instabilite Genetique CEA/IRCM, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

Bernard Duncker
Position held: Postdoc, September 1995 - August 2000
Current position: Lab Head, University of Waterloo, Dept. of Biology, Ontario, Canada

Prof. Rochelle Easton Esposito (Shelley)
Email: re-esposito@uchicago.edu
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, September 2006 - May 2007
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Helder Ferreira
Email: hcf2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Position held: Postdoc, 2007 – 2013
Current position: Lecturer, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, B303; University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST Scotland

Andrea Formenton
Position held: Masters Student, degree 1996
Current position: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medicine Interne B, Lausanne

Christian Frei
Email: ch.frei.1971@gmail.com
Position held: PhD Student, PhD 1999
Current position: Lab Head, Institute of Cell Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Olivier Fritsch
Email: olivier.fritsch@unibas.ch
Position held: Postdoc, 2004-2006
Current position: Lab manager, Group Primo Schaer, Molecular Genetics, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Patrick Furrer
Email: patrick.furrer@hes-so.ch
Position held: Guest Scientist, February - April 2001
Current position: at HES-SO Sitz, Delemont, Switzerland

Prof. Marc Gartenberg
Email: gartenbe@umdnj.edu
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, January - July 2002
Visiting from: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, Piscataway, USA

Lutz Gehlen
Email: fmi@lutzgehlen.de
Position held: PhD Student, 2005 – 2009; PhD 2009, Postdoc June 2009 - September 2009
Current position: co-founder and CTO Lifeonics Inc., Auckland, New Zealand; co-founder and co-director of plan16 GmbH, Flensburg, Germany

Eric Gilson
Email: Eric.Gilson@unice.fr
Position held: Postdoc, 1991 - 1993
Current position: at CNRS UMR 6267-INSERM U998-UNSA Faculte de Medecine, Nice, France

Monica Gotta
Position held: PhD Student, 1993- 1997; PhD 1997
Current position: Professor and lab head, Dpt GEDEV, CMU, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland

Prof. Yosef Gruenbaum
Email: gru@vms.huji.ac.il
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, 1995, 2011
Visiting professor from: Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Department of Genetics, Jerusalem, Israel

Anna Maria Friedel Hegnauer
Email: am@hegnauer.org
Position held: PhD Student, 2005 – 2010; PhD 2010
Current position: Gymnasium Chemistry and Biology teacher, Basel, Switzerland

Patrick Heun
Email: patrick.heun@ed.ac.uk
Position held: PhD Student, 1995 – 2000, PhD 2000
Current position: Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology; University of Edinburgh; Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, Scotland, UK

Johannes Hofmann
Position held: PhD Student, 1988 -1991, PhD 1991
Current position: at Commerz Asset Managers, Frankfurt, Germany

Chihiro Horigome
Email: horigome@iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Position held: Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2015
Working place: Lab of Genome Regeneration, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan Tel. (Office): +81 3 5841 7860

Prof. Ueli Huebscher
Email: hubscher@vetbio.unizh.ch
Position held: Sabbatical Guest
Visiting from: Universitaet Zurich-Irchel, Institut fur Veterinaerbiochemie, Zurich, Switzerland. Retired 2014.

Nicole Hustedt
Email: nicole.hustedt@fmi.ch
Position held: PhD Student, June 2010-December 2014
Current position: Post-doc under Prof Dr. Daniel Durocher, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.

Shirley Jankelevich
Position held: Guest Scientist, 1991
Current position: Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, All Children's Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicine, St. Petersburg, USA

Thibaud Jegou
Email: thibaud.jegou@gmail.com
Position held: Guest Scientist, 2011
Current position: Application specialist for EMEA LATAM by Roche Life science.

Franz Klein
Email: franz.klein@univie.ac.at
Position held: Guest Scientist, 1990
Current position: Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Chromosome Biology, Austria

Stephanie Kung
Email: skueng@gmx.net
Position held: Postdoc, 2007 – 2012
Current position: Senior Scientist at Roche Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland

Thierry Laroche
Email: thierry.laroche@epfl.ch
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 1986 - 2005
Current position: Microscope Technician, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Didier Leroy
Email: leroyd@mmv.org
Position held: Postdoc, January 1998 - April 2001
Current position: Associate Director, Drug Discovery, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Geneva, Switzerland; Editor at Malaria Journal

Sophie Martin
Email: Sophie.Martin@unil.ch
Position held: Masters Student, 1997 - 1998
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Fabrizio Martino
Email: fabrizio@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Position held: PhD Student, 2003-2008, PhD 2008
Current position: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

Peter Meister
Email: peter.meister@izb.unibe.ch
Position held: Postdoctoral Fellow, January 2005- August 2011
Current position: SNF Assistant Professor, Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Nicole de Montmollin
Email: Nicole.demontmollin@epfl.ch
Position held: Secretary, 1995 - 2000
Current position: Administration, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Shigeki Nagai
Email: shigeki.nagai@stanford.edu
Position held: PhD Student, 2005- 2009; PhD 2009
Current position: Postdoc, Roger Kornberg lab, Stanford University Medical School, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford, USA

Frank Neumann
Email: f.neumann@unibas.ch
Position held: PhD Student, 1999-2005, PhD 2005
Current position: Scientific Coordinator, Department of Biomedicine University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Yukako Oma
Email: yukako@biochem.tohoku.ac.jp
Position held: Guest Scientist, May 2006 and August 2007
Current position: Postdoc in Masahiko Harata's lab at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Mariano Oppikofer
Email: mariano.oppikofer@gmail.com
Position held: PhD Student, August 2008- September 2012; PhD 2012
Current position: Postdoc at Genentech, S. San Francisco, USA.

Francesca Palladino
Position held: Postdoc, 1991 - 1995
Current position: Lab Head, Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression in C. elegans, ENS de Lyon, France

Mike Parkan
Email: michal.parkan@unige.ch
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 2002 - 2004
Current position: Systems engineer, National Center of Competence in Research, Frontiers in Genetics, Imaging platform, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Philippe Pasero
Email: philippe.pasero@igh.cnrs.fr
Position held: Postdoc, August 1994 - July 1998
Current position: Lab Head, Institute of Human Genetics, Montpellier, France

Severine Perrod
Email: severine.perrod@gmail.com
Position held: PhD Student, 1998 – 2002; PhD 2002
Current position: Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Specialist, Nestle Suisse S.A, Case Postale 352,CH-1800 Vevey

Brietta Pike
Email: brietta@bluewin.ch
Position held: Postdoc, March 2006 - June 2009
Current position: Product and Marketing Manager, Karger Publishers, Basel, Switzerland

Alessandra Pollice
Email: alessandra.pollice@unina.it
Position held: Guest Scientist, 1990 - 1992
Current position: Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Aaron Ponti
Email: aaron.ponti@bsse.ethz.ch
Position held: Postdoc, April 2005- December 2005
Current position: Staff of D-BSSE Single Cell Facility ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland

Hubert Renaud
Email: xinyubie@yahoo.com
Position held: Postdoc, 1993 - 1996
Current position: Senior Scientist, ITRI, Taiwan

Prof. Daniela Rhodes
Email: DRhodes@ntu.edu.sg
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, 1990
Current position: Professor at School of Biological Sciences, NTU Structural Biology and LKC Medicine, Singapore

Michel Roberge
Email: michelr@interchange.ubc.ca
Position held: Postdoc, January 1990 - June 1991
Current position: University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine, Dept. of Biochemistry, Vancouver, Canada

Emma Roberts
Email: emmahatherley@gmail.com
Position held: Postdoc, 1994 - 1997
Current position: Human Genetics Counselling, Molecular Medicine Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Sabine Rohner
Email: srohner@gmx.net
Position held: PhD Student, January 2008 - March 2013
Current position: Biotech, Bern, Switzerland

Monique Thomas-Seldran
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 2004-2005
Retired

Thomas Schleker
Email: thomas.schleker@ec.europa.eu
Position held: PhD Student, 2002-2007, PhD 2007
Current position: European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, 3 Renewable Energy Sources, Brussels, Belgium

Roger Schmid
Email: r.schmid2@gmx.ch
Position held: Masters Student, June 2010 - January 2011
Current position: PhD student with Ueli Grossniklaus, Institue of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Rita Schmidt
Position held: Postdoc, 1994
Current position: North Vancouver, Canada

Heiko Schober
Email: heiko.k.schober@gmail.com
Position held: PhD Student, PhD Student, 2003 – 2008, PhD 2008
Current position: Medical Scientific Liaison Manager at Novartis Oncology, Novartis Intl. AG

Profs. Eric and Jeanne Selker
Email: eric.selker@gmail.com
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, January-February 2007
Visiting from: Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

Robin Walter Sierra
Email: walterr@mail.nih.gov
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 1989 - 1993
Current position: Biology of Aging Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Alex Soltermann
Email: alex.soltermann@usz.ch
Position held: MD-PhD Student, January 1997 - December 1998
Current position: Institute for Surgical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Elisa M. Stone
Position held: Postdoc, 1997
Current position: Science and amp; Health Educ. Partnership, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Angela Taddei
Email: angela.taddei@curie.fr
Position held: Postdoc, December 2004 - October 2006
Current position: Lab Head, Nuclear dynamics and genome plasticity, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Benjamin Towbin
Position held: PhD Student, December 2007- February 2013
Current position: Postdoc with Uri Alon, Israel

Haico Van Attikum
Email: h.van.attikum@lumc.nl
Position held: Postdoc, January 2003 - July 2007
Current position: group leader, Leiden University Medical Center, Building 2, Room S-04-034, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands

Griet Van Houwe
Email: gvanhouwe@gmail.com
Position held: Technical Research Associate, 2001 - 2004
Retired from University of Geneva

Elisa Varela-Sanz
Email: mevarela@cnio.es
Position held: Postdoc, 2004 - 2009
Current position: Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain

Nikita Vassetzky
Email: nvas@eimb.ru
Position held: Guest Scientist, 1994 - 1995
Current position: Engelhardt Institute, Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia

Yegor Vassetzky
Email: vassetzky@igr.fr
Position held: Postdoc, 1993 - 1995
Current position: Lab Head, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

Nathalie Vilain
Email: nathalie.vilain@fmi.ch
Position held: Masters Student, December 1998 - November 1999
Current position: Research Associate, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Florence Hediger Vonmoos
Email: florence@flmj.ch
Position held: PhD Student, 2000 - 2004, PhD 2004
Current position: Scientist, Philip Morris International, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Prof. Ted Young
Email: ety@u.washington.edu
Position held: Sabbatical Guest, September 1988-August 1989
Visiting from: University of Washington, Seattle, USA