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