Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber (born 1968 in Geneva) is a Swiss neurobiologist.[4][5] She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland.

Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber in 2013
Born1968 (age 54โ€“55)
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Basel
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
InstitutionsColumbia University
Friedrich Miescher Institute
Biozentrum University of Basel
ThesisActivity-sensitive signaling at the neuromuscular junction (1995)
Websitewww.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/research-groups/research-groups-a-z/overview/unit/research-group-silvia-arber

Education

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.

Career and research

Arber subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University in New York City. In 2000, she returned to Basel as a Professor of Neurobiology and Cell Biology continuing her research work and teaching at the Biozentrum as well as at the FMI.

Arber's research 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.[6]

She serves as a member of the Editorial Board for Cell.[7]

Awards and honors

Personal life

Arber is the daughter of the Swiss microbiologist and geneticist Werner Arber, who in 1978 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.[17]

References

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