Florence Pojer

EPFL SV PTECH PTPSP
AI 2147 (Bâtiment AI)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

Web site:  Web site:  https://ae.epfl.ch/

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Administrative data

Fields of expertise

Head of a core facility within the Life Sciences School - PTPSP
With main expertise in Integrative protein Structural Biology (e.g. biophysical techniques, X-ray Crystallography, SPR Cryo-EM,..)
And  production/Purification of macromolecules (e.g. antibodies, membrane proteins, growth factors...) expressed in mammalian, insect and bacterial cells

Professional course

Head of Protein Production and Structure Core Facility

School of Life Sciences

EPFL

2011-now

Staff scientist

Chair of Microbial Pathogenesis, Prof. Stewart Cole

EPFL

2007-2018

Post-doc

Structural Biology lab, Prof. Joseph Noel

The Salk Institute (La Jolla, USA)

2004-2007


Education

PhD thesis

Antibiotic research

Tuebingen (Germany)

1999-2003

Pharm D

Pharmacy School

Besancon (France)

1992-1998

Publications

Infoscience publications

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Life Sciences Engineering

Outreach

PTPSP is regularly hosting kids and classes to discuss scientific topics and propose practical experiments. PTPSP is also participating in EPFL open days.

Courses

Concept to early-stage Drug and MedTech products

This course covers the steps in the development and commercialization of drugs, medical devices, food and nutritional products. The aim is to educate and motivate students to explore career paths in the Life Sciences industry and bridge the acute talent gap in Switzerland.

Recombinant protein expression in animal cells for appli-cations in medicine and structural biology

Cultivated animal cells are important hosts for the production of recombinant proteins for biochemical and structural studies and for use as therapeutics. The course will provide an overview of the methods for the production and characterization of recombinant proteins.

Methods: from disease models to therapy

This course will describe methods underlying translational approaches from disease modeling and characterization to therapeutic applications. The presented techniques will be complemented by hands-on rotations in the technological platforms of the School of Life Sciences.

Methods: omics in biomedical research

High-throughput methodologies broadly called Omics allow to characterize the complexity and dynamics of any biological system. This course will provide a general description of different methods related to the Omics field followed by hands-on rotations in participating technological platforms.