Prof. Dr. Isabelle Mansuy

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

Y55 H 66

Winterthurerstrasse 190

8057 Zürich

Switzerland

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
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
376-1414-00L Current Topics in Brain Research (HS)