Lluis Quintana-Murci#
| Membership Number: | 3821 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pasteur.fr/research/heg |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Director of Research (DR1) CNRS, URA 3012, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2008 - 2012 Director of Research (DR2) CNRS, URA 3012, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2007 - present Director of the Unit of Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2001 - 2007 Research Scientist (CR), CNRS FRE 2849, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1999 - 2001 Post-doctoral fellow, Unit of Immunogenetics, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 1994 - 1998 PhD fellow in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of Pavia, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Population genetics
- Evolutionary biology
- Human genome diversity
- Genetic variation of innate immunity genes
- Genetic regulation of gene expression upon infection
Honours and Awards
- 2014 EMBO member
- 2013 CNRS Silver Medal
- 2011 European Research Council (ERC) Awardee
- 2009 Debiopharm- EPFL Life Sciences Award
- 2009 Georges, Jacques et Elias Canetti Award
- 2009 Dagnan-Bouveret Award, French Academy of Sciences
- 2008 CNRS Bronze Medal
- 2001 European “Marie Curie Award” in Impact of Genetics on Science and Society
- 1996 Marie Curie Fellowship
