Andrea Pauli - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• 2009 DPhil in Biochemistry, Oxford University, UK
  
• 2004 M.Sc. in Molecular & Cellular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany
  
• 2002 Study of Biochemistry, Regensburg University, Germany

POSITIONS HELD TO DATE

• 2022 - present Senior Group Leader, IMP, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2015 - 2022 Junior Group Leader, IMP, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2009 - 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow with Alex Schier, Harvard University, USA
  
• 2006 - 2009 PhD student with Kim Nasmyth, Oxford University, UK

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Life of sexually reproducing organisms starts with the fusion of two highly specialized cells, the egg and the sperm, which gives rise to a single cell, the zygote. The vision of the Pauli lab is to gain insights into the poorly understood mechanisms regulating the egg-to-embryo transition, with a specific focus on the molecular control of fertilization and developmentally programmed dormancy and re-activation. Using zebrafish as the main model organism, the lab combines genetic, molecular and biochemical approaches.

THREE MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS from my own lab

Deneke VE#*, Blaha A#, … , Pauli A*. A conserved fertilization complex bridges sperm and egg in vertebrates. Cell. Volume 187, Issue 25 Pages 7066-7078.e22; doi:10.1016/j.cell.2024.09.035. PMID: 39423812.

Leesch F#, Lorenzo-Orts L#*, …, Haselbach D*, Pauli A*. A molecular network of conserved factors keeps ribosomes dormant in the egg. Nature. 2023. Jan;613(7945):712-720. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05623-y. PMID: 36653451

Herberg S, ..., Pauli A*. The Ly6/uPAR protein Bouncer is required and sufficient for species-specific fertilization. Science. 2018 Sept 7. 361(6406), 1029–1033. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7113. PMID: 30190407.

RESEARCH FUNDING

• 2023 - 2028 ERC Consolidator Grant GaMe
  
• 2020 - 2024 Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Grant
  
• 2017 - 2024 FWF START Prize Austrian Science Fund
  
• 2020 - 2024 FWF SFB grant RNADeco
  
• 2016 - 2020 HFSP Career Development Award

RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• From 2025 Course director MBL Zebrafish Course in Woods Hole, MA, USA
  
• Since 2021 EMBO member
  
• Since 2020 Dean of the VBC Summer School
  
• Since 2018 Member of the EMBO Young Investigator Program (EMBO YIP)
  
• 2015 HFSP Career Development Award
  
• 2014 Chi-Bin Chien Award from the Genetics Society of America (GSA)
  
• 2013 - 2015 NIH Transition to Independence Award (K99/R01) (NICHD)
  
• 2010 - 2013 HFSP Long-Term Fellowship Award
  
• 2009 - 2010 EMBO Long-Term Fellowship Award
  
• 2008 - 2009 Prize Scholar Merton College, Oxford University, UK

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• 2026 European Zebrafish Society Conference
  
• 2026 CSHL Cell and Membrane Fusion meeting
  
• 2025 EMBO Workshop RNA meets protein decay, Vienna, Austria
  
• 2024 CSHL Cell and Membrane Fusion meeting
  
• 2022 CSHL conference Germ Cells
  
• 2021 - present Yearly international MicroSymposium on RNA Biology at the VBC