Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla - Curriculum Vitae#
CURRENT POSITION
- Director, Institute of Epigenetics & Stem Cells. Helmholtz Centre Munich
- Professor (W3) for Stem Cell Biology, Faculty of Biology Ludwig-Maximilians University
EDUCATION
- 2008 Habilitation on Molecular & Cellular Biology. Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
- 1998 - 2002 Ph.D in Molecular & Cellular Biology. Université Paris V/Institut Pasteur. Paris 1994-1998-University degree, Biology, Faculty of Sciences, National University of Mexico
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS
84 accepted publications (62 as first or corresponding author)
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER
- SCIENCE, since 2021
- Cell Stem Cell, since 2021
- Development, since 2019
- Journal of Cell Biology, since 2018
- Genes & Development, since 2016
COMISSIONS OF TRUST AND BOARDS (SELECTED)
- Steering Board Member, Single Cell Omics, Germany
- Member of the Think Tank of the Helmholtz Association
- Committee of the International Ph.D Programme, epicrossboarders
- Panel Member of ATIP-Avenir INSERM/CNRS committee
- External Scientific Advisor, NIH 4D Nucleome Project
- SAB Member of the Center for Integrative Biology Toulouse, France
- Committee of the International Ph.D Programme,IGBMC
- Co-Chair for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting ‘Summer Davos’
SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
More than 200 invited seminars and presentations at international meetings
NETWORKING AND CONFERENCE ORGANISATION (SELECTED)
- 2019 - 2020 Work Package Leader and Founder Member of the LifeTimeInitiative
- 2018 - now Co-coordinator of the EpiGene2Sys Network
- 2018 Organiser. FASEB Meeting Biological Methylation
- 2017 - 2019 Co-Chair & Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Epigenetics
- 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019 Co-organiser. Abcam Meeting. Chromatin & Epigenetics
- 2011 Founding organiser. EMBO Workshop Series. Histone Variants & Genome Function
LAY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
- 2020 Berlin Science Week. What is epigenetics?
- 2020 Podcast. The lonely pipette: helping scientists do better science
- 2017 CNBC. World Economic Forum ‘ Summer Davos’ Panelist
- 2017 Press conference. World Economic Forum ‘Summer Davos’. Science under Attack
- 2017 "Rethinking the Genome: Epigenetics, Health & Society". Technical University Munich
- 2015 Interview for “Forschung Aktuell” on Implications of totipotency
- 2015 Film "Du jeu dans les gènes" Main contributor of 1 of 6 chapter