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 | |
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Born | 1968 (age 54โ55) |
Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater | University of Basel |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Neurobiology |
Institutions | Columbia University Friedrich Miescher Institute Biozentrum University of Basel |
Thesis | Activity-sensitive signaling at the neuromuscular junction (1995) |
Website | www |
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
- 1998: Pfizer Forschungspreis[8]
- 2003: National Latsis Prize[9]
- 2005: elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)[3]
- 2005: Schellenberg Prize[10]
- 2008: Friedrich Miescher Award[11]
- 2009: European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigators Grant[12]
- 2014: Otto Naegeli Prize[13]
- 2014: elected Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)[14]
- 2017: Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine[5]
- 2018: W. Alden Spencer Award
- 2018: Pradel Research Award
- 2019: Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture[15]
- 2020: Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States[1]
- 2022: The Brain Prize[16]
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
- "Silvia Arber: University of Basel". nasonline.org.
- "Silvia ARBER | Jeantet". 4 October 2017.
- "Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- Silvia Arber publications from Europe PubMed Central
- "Prize winners | Jeantet". 11 December 2017.
- "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
- "DF โ Prix Schellenberg โ 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.
- "Winners of The Brain Prize 2022". The Brain Prize. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- "Curriculium Vitae". Retrieved 8 April 2022.