Prof. Dr. Isabelle Mansuy
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Mansuy
Full Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology
Deputy head of Institute for Neuroscience
ETH Zürich
Institut für Neurowissenschaften
Additional information
Research area
The Mansuy lab studies the epigenetic basis of complex brain functions and how acquired behaviors are transmitted across generations in mammals at the highest international level. Her broad spectrum of methods extends from epigenetic and genetic methods, behavioral testing, -omics, bioinformatics, and imaging techniques. Through this multidisciplinary approach, combined with an extensive international network, she has succeeded in achieving pioneering research results.
Isabelle Mansuy has been promoted to a Full Professor of Neuroepigenetics (dual professorship with the University of Zurich) in 2013. She started working as an Assistant Professor in Cellular Neurobiology at the Institute of Cell Biology in 1998. Since 1 April 2005 she was Associate Professor for Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences at the department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich (also as dual-professorship with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich).
Isabelle Mansuy, a french national, studied at the Université Louis Pasteur (ULP), Strasbourg, France and at the École Superieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg where she got degrees in Biotechnology Engineering and Molecular Biology. In 1994, she obtained an European PhD in Molecular and Developmental Neurobiology from the ULP for a thesis work performed at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Novartis, Basel. She then moved to the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior at Columbia University, New York and spent four years studying the role of the phosphatase Calcineurin in brain plasticity, learning and memory using genetically modified mice.
Honours
Year | Distinction |
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2017 | Elected member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) |
2016 | Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour, France |
2011 | Elected member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation |
2011 | Knight in the Order of Merit, France |
2008 | Robert Bing Prize |
2006 | EMBO member |
2004 | Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award |
2004 | FEBS Anniversary Award |
2001 | EMBO Young Investigator Program Award |
1997 | Fyssen Foundation Research Award |
Course Catalogue
Autumn Semester 2024
Number | Unit |
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376-1414-00L | Current Topics in Brain Research (HS) |