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Pierre Gönczy

pierre.gonczy@epfl.ch +41 21 693 07 11

EPFL SV ISREC UPGON
SV 1526 (Bâtiment SV)
Station 19
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Cell division Polarity Asymmetric division Microtubules Centriole SAS-6 C-elegans
Pierre Gönczy obtained his PhD from The Rockefeller University (New York, USA) in 1995 and joined the laboratory of Tony Hyman at the EMBL (Heidelberg, Germany) as a postdoctoral fellow in 1996. He started his own laboratory at ISREC in 2000. In 2005, he became Associate Professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences, and was promoted Full Professor in 2009.

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Cédric Pourroy, Friso Douma, Dessislava Iliyanova Ilieva, Alana Dastous, Ella Linxia Müller, Sanne Wijma

Past EPFL PhD Students

Gregor Kohlmaier, Kalyani Thyagarajan, Alexandra Bezler, Debora Keller, Simon Blanchoud, Lukas von Tobel, Christian Gentili, Zoltán Péter Spiró, Alessandro De Simone, Veronika Nemcíková Villímová, Melina Jasmin Scholze, Radek Jankele, Nils Kalbfuss, Jinmin Liu, Keshav Jha

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Aleksandar Salim

Courses

Cell and developmental biology for engineers

BIO-221

Students will learn essentials of cell and developmental biology with an engineering mind set, with an emphasis on animal systems and quantitative approaches.

Life Sciences engineering: genome to function

BIO-411

Students will acquire fundamental knowledge regarding how genomes can be engineered, how their function can be deciphered, and how their dynamic outputs can be analyzed and modeled, exemplified with a focus on cell cycle progression and proliferation control.

Practical - Gönczy Lab

BIO-617

Give students a feel for some of the approaches pursued to understand mechanisms underlying cell division processes, primarily in C. elegans embryos but also in other systems, including human cells in culture.

Scientific project design in cell and developmental biology

BIO-464

Students are led to understand selected concepts in cell and developmental biology through the analysis of scientific literature, and then apply these concepts to the design and execution of a group project in either the Gönczy or the Oates laboratory.