!!Thomas Lecuit - Curriculum Vitae
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__Education:__ 
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*Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (Ulm), 1991\\
*PhD, Univ of Paris 1998\\
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__Research and Professional experience:__
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*Research Director CNRS, 2006-present, IBDM, CNRS & Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France\\
*Visiting Professor, NCBS, Bangalore, 2011\\
*Research Associate CNRS, 2001-2006, IBDM, Marseille, France\\
*Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-2001, Princeton Univ., USA, (with E. Wieschaus).\\
*PhD thesis, 1995-1998, EMBL, Heidelberg (with S. Cohen).\\
*MSc, 1994. Rockefeller University, New York, USA. (with C. Desplan).\\
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__Scientific Responsibilities:__
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*Principal Investigator, IBDM, Marseille, France. Since 2001.\\
*Director of Labex INFORM research network, Marseille, France. Since 2012.\\
*Director of LIA (Laboratoire International Associé), IBDM-NCBS. Since 2014.\\
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__Editorial activities:__
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*Editor of Development (since 2008).\\
*Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) of Science (since 2014)\\
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__Reviewing activities:__
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*Journals: mostly Nature, Science, Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Developmental Cell, Current Biology, Journal of Cell Biology.\\
*Grant agencies: International: ERC, HFSP, EMBO; UK: Wellcome Trust, BBSRC, MRC; USA: NSF, and other countries (Switzerland, Israel, Singapore, Netherlands etc).\\
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__Scientific committees:__\\
__Panel member of:__
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*European Research Council, Starting Grant, LS3, since 2011.\\
*ATIP/AVENIR (CNRS-INSERM) Starting Grant, LS3, since 2008. Panel chair in 2014. \\
*Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) (SVSE2), in 2013.\\
*Swiss National Science Foundation, Systems Biology, since 2013.\\
*Interface Research Grant Physics-Chemistry-Biology at CNRS in 2007-2008.\\
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__Conferences/Lectures:__
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*Organization: \\
**EMBO Workshop ‘Epithelial polarity in development and disease’ march 2004, Carry le Rouet, France. \\
**EMBO Lecture course ‘Mesoscopic origins of cell behavior during morphogenesis’, april 2012, in Cargese, France.\\
**Santa Barbara Advanced School of Quantitative Biology, 22 july- 24 august 2013, KITP, Santa Barbara (Course **Director with B. Shraiman, E. Paluch and J. Rothman)\\
**1st Conference on Quantitative Biology of Signalling. Cargese, October 21-25 2013.\\
*Session chair: ASCB meeting (2005, 2011), ELSO Conference (2005), EMBO Conference (2012) and EDRC meeting (2008).\\
*Invitation to over 80 conferences and 60 seminars/lectures since 2001, including 5 Plenary lectures.