Mary Anne O'Connell#
| Membership Number: | 5580 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ceitec.eu/era-chair-rna-and-immunity-mary-oconnell/rg112 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3844-6174 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present European Research Area (ERA) Chair, Professor, CEITEC, Masaryk Universit,y Brno, Czech Republic
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Professor Stockholm University, Sweden
- 1997 - 2013 Group Leader at MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh UK
- 1993 - 1997 Assistent, (Instructor) Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1990 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland
- 1987 - 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Fields of Scholarship
- RNA editing
- RNA modification
- Self non self recognition
- Inosine
- Innate immunity
- ADARs
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Distinguished Alumna Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York USA
- 2017 Whitman Center Research Award, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole USA
- 2017 Elected as an EMBO member
- 2012 - 2014 Elected Treasurer of RNA Society
- 1990 -1993 Boehringer Ingelheim Fellowship
