Sophie Martin, associate professor
Sophie Martin earned her Diploma in 1999 from the UNIL for her study of chromatin organization in the laboratory of Dr Susan Gasser at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC). She then joined the group of Dr Daniel St Johnston at the Wellcome/CR UK Gurdon Institute to study the molecular mechanisms of cell polarization and mRNA localization using Drosophila as model system and received her PhD in 2003 from the University of Cambridge. She obtained postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr Fred Chang at Columbia University in New York, studying cell polarization and the cytoskeleton in the fission yeast. She joined the Center for Integrative Genomics at the University of Lausanne as a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor in September 2007. In 2009, she was elected as an EMBO Young Investigator. She was appointed Associate Professor at the DMF in 2010.
Brief CV
Born 19th October 1975
Married, two children born in 2007 and 2010
Professional path
2010: Associate Professor at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne
2007-2010: Assistant Professor SNF (Prof boursier) at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
2003-2007: Postdoctoral training at Columbia University, New York, USA
Advisor: Dr Fred Chang, Department of Microbiology,
Subject: Microtubule-actin interactions in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
2003: PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK
Advisor: Dr Daniel St Johnston, The Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge
Subject: Molecular and genetic analysis of cell polarisation, mRNA localisation and axis formation during Drosophila oogenesis
1998: Diploma in Biology from the University of Lausanne
Advisor: Dr Susan Gasser, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC)
Subject: Role of Ku proteins in nuclear organization and silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
1997: Degree in Biology from the University of Lausanne
Certificates in cellular biochemistry and molecular immunology
3rd year of BA spent at University of Zurich
Honors
2012: ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology) WICB (Women in Cell Biology) Junior Award
2009: EMBO Young Investigator Award
Teaching
BSc1: Diversité du Vivant - les protistes
BSc2: Génétique des modèles eucaryotes - les levures (lecture and practicals)
Bsc3: Cell Division: where, when, how? (lecture and practicals)
Coordinator of the module "The Dynamic Cell"
Master MLS: Cytoskeleton and morphogenesis (together with Prof Justine Collier)
Master MLS: Tutor for write a review / write a fellowship class
