Silvia Arber
Silvia Arber (born 1968 in Geneva) is a Swiss neurobiologist.[2] She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland.
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Born | 1968 Geneva |
Nationality | Swiss |
Awards | Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2017)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Neurobiologist |
Institutions | Columbia University, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Biozentrum University of Basel |
Life
Silvia Arber studied biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and completed her doctorate in 1995 at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University in New York. In 2000, Silvia Arber returned to Basel as a Professor of Neurobiology/Cell Biology continuing her research work and teaching at the Biozentrum as well as at the FMI. Silvia Arber is the daughter of the Swiss microbiologist and geneticist Werner Arber, who in 1978 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.[3]
Work
Silvia Arber investigates the mechanisms involved in the function and assembly of neuronal circuits controlling motor behavior. She has shown that premotor interneuron groups differ from each other in their functionality and distribution in the spinal cord and that this property depends on the timing of their generation during development.[4]
Awards & Honors
- 1998: Pfizer Forschungspreis[6]
- 2003: National Latsis Prize[7]
- 2005: elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[8]
- 2005: Schellenberg Prize[9]
- 2008: Friedrich Miescher Award[10]
- 2009: ERC Advanced Investigators Grant[11]
- 2014: Otto Naegeli Prize[12]
- 2014: elected Member of the Academia Europaea[13]
- 2017: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[2]
- 2018: Pradel Research Award
- 2019: Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture[14]
- 2022: The Brain Prize[15]
References
- "Silvia ARBER | Jeantet". 4 October 2017.
- "Prize winners | Jeantet". 11 December 2017.
- "Curriculium Vitae". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- "Research Group Silvia Arber". www.biozentrum.unibas.ch.
- "Editorial board: Cell".
- "Pfizer Forschungspreis". Archived from the original on 24 May 2006.
- National Latsis Prize Archived 29 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- "Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- "DF ⁄ Prix Schellenberg ⁄ Arber". forschdb2.unibas.ch.
- Friedrich Miescher Award
- ERC Advanced Investigators Grant
- Silvia Arber receives Otto Naegeli Prize 2014 Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- Elected Member of the Academia Europaea ae-info.org. Retrieved 4 September 2014
- "2019 Prize Lecture announcement". The Physiological Society. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
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