Friedrich Miescher Institute
What was the name of the employer Susan M. Gasser work for in Dec 2004?
Susan M . Gasser Susan M . Gasser is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Basel . From 2004 - 2019 she was the director of Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research , where she currently runs a laboratory of quantitative biology studying epigenetic inheritance and genome stability . Early career . Susan Gasser received her doctorate from the University of Basel in Biochemistry for the development of an in vitro system for the import of mitochondrial proteins with Gottfried ( Jeff ) Schatz in the Biozentrum of the University of Basel . She then studied the long-range folding of the genome in flies and human cells as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Geneva with Ulrich K . Laemmli . She established a role for topoisomerase II in metaphase chromosome structure ( Gasser et al. , JMB 1986 ) and identified a role for A/T-rich sequences in long-range chromatin folding . Career . Gasser presently holds a professorship at the University of Basel and runs a research laboratory at the FMI . From 1986 to 2001 , Gasser led a research group at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research . There she discovered and documented the clustering of yeast telomeres at the nuclear envelope , and elucidated the role of this subnuclear distribution in heritable gene repression using a combined genetic and fluorescence microscopy approach . From 2001 to 2004 , Gasser was a professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva . The laboratory developed quantitative live imaging tools to study the subnuclear dynamics of DNA loci in living cells . From 2004 - 2019 , she was the Director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel , and Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Basel . She has been a pioneer in characterizing the role histone modifications in the spatial organization of chromatin in the interphase nucleus . Gasser has served on review boards and advisory councils throughout Switzerland and Europe . She is currently a member of the Swiss Science Council and the Board of the ETH Domain ( Rat der Eidgenossosichen Technischen Hochschulen ) and Chaired the Commission on Gender Equality of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2014-2020 . She was previously Chair of the EMBO Council ( 2002 - 2005 ) and member of the Presidents Science and Technology Advisory Council ( PSTAC ) for the European Commission . Career history . - 1977-1979 : University of Chicago , Illinois , United States , Bachelor of Arts with honours in biophysics - 1979-1982 : University of Basel ( Biozentrum ) PhD Magna cum laude in biochemistry , thesis advisor : Prof . G . Schatz - 1983-1986 : maître assistant , Prof . U . K . Laemmli , University of Geneva , Department of Molecular Biology - 1986-1990 : junior group leader , Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research - 1991-2001 : senior group leader , Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research - 2001-2004 : full professor , Department of Molecular Biology , University of Geneva , Geneva - 2004-2019 : director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research , Basel - Since January 2005 : full professor in molecular biology , University of Basel Awards . - 2016 Honorary Doctorate , Charles University , Prague , Czech Republic - 2016 Lee Hartwell Award of the Genetics Society of America - 2014 Doctorat Honoris causa , University of Lausanne - 2013 Member of the EC Presidents Science and Technology advisory Council ( PSTAC ) - 2013 Weizmann Institute , Women in Science Award - 2012 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award - 2011 Prix International de lINSERM , France - 2009 Election to American Association for the Advancement of Science - 2009 London Royal Society of Chemistry Nucleic Acid Award - 2007 Election to German Academy of Science , Leopoldina - 2006 Election to Academy of Medical Sciences , Switzerland - 2006 Gregor Mendel Medal , Czech Academy of Science - 2006 Otto Naegeli Prize for Biomedical Research , Switzerland - 2005 Foreign member , Académie des Sciences , Institut de France - 1999 Medal of Honor , 3rd Medical Faculty of Charles University , Prague - 1998 Election to Academia Europaea - 1994 Friedrich Miescher Prize , Swiss Society for Biochemistry - 1993 Member , EMBO - 1991 National Latsis Prize , Swiss National Science Foundation Selected publications . - 2020 The LSM2-8 complex and XRN-2 mediate RNA decay at H3K27me3-marked genes in C . elegans . Nature Cell Biology , doi : 10.1038/s41556-020-0504-1 Mattout A , Gaidatzis D , Padeken J , Schmid CD , Aeschlimann F , Kalck V and Gasser SM - 2019 Active chromatin marks drive spatial sequestration of heterochromatin in differentiated cells . Nature 569 , 734 - 739 . doi : 10.1038/s41586-019-1243-y Cabianca D , Munoz Jimenez C , Kalck V , Gaidatzis D , Padeken J , Askjaer P and Gasser SM - 2017 Histone degradation in response to DNA damage enhances chromatin dynamics and recombination rates . Nature Struct . Mol . Biology , 24 , 99 – 107 . doi : 10.1038/nsmb.3347v Hauer MH , Seeber A , Singh V , Thierry R , Sack R , Amitai A , Kryzhanovska M , Eglinger J , Holcman D , Owen-Hughes T and Gasser SM - 2016 Histone H3K9 methylation is dispensable for C . elegans development , but suppresses RNA-DNA hybrid-associated repeat instability . Nature Genetics , 48 , 1385 - 1395 . doi : 10.1038/ng.3672 Zeller P , Padeken J , van Schendel R , Kalck V , Tijsterman M and Gasser SM - 2015 Perinuclear Anchoring of H3K9-Methylated Chromatin Stabilizes Induced Cell Fate in C . elegans embryos . Cell , 163 , 1333 – 1347 Gonzalez-Sandoval A , Towbin BD , Kalck V , Cabianca DS , Gaidatzis D , Hauer MH , Geng L , Wang L , Yang T , Wang X , Zhao K and Gasser SM - 2013 TORC2 signaling pathway guarantees genome stability in face of DNA strand breaks . Mol Cell , 51:829-839 , Shimada K , Fillipuzzi I , Stahl M , Helliwell SB , Seeber A , Loewith R , Movva R , Gasser SM - 2013 The shelterin protein POT-1 anchors C . elegans telomeres through SUN-1 at the nuclear periphery . J Cell Biol , 203:727-35 , Ferreira HC , Towbin BD , Jegou T , Gasser SM - 2013 Checkpoint kinases and nucleosome remodelers enhance global chromatin mobility in response to DNA damage . Genes Dev , 27:1999-2008 . doi:10.1101/gad.222992.113 , Seeber A , Dion V , Gasser SM - 2013 Cohesin and the nucleolus constrain the mobility of spontaneous repair foci . EMBO Rep . 14:984-991 , Dion V , Kalck V , Seeber A , Schleker T , Gasser SM - 2013 SIR proteins and the assembly of silent chromatin in budding yeast . Annu Rev Genet . 47:275-306 , Kueng S , Oppikofer M , Gasser SM - 2012 Step-wise methylation of histone H3K9 positions chromosome arms at the nuclear periphery in C . elegans embryos . Cell , 150:934-947 , Towbin BD , Gonzalez-Aguilera C , Sack R , Gaidatzis D , Kalck V , Meister P , Askjaer P , Gasser SM - 2012 Increased dynamics of double strand breaks requires Mec1 , Rad9 and the homologous recombination machinery . Nat . Cell Biol . 14:502-509 , Dion V , Kalck V , Horigome C , Towbin BD , Gasser SM - 2012 Targeted INO80 enhances subnuclear chromatin movement and ectopic homologous recombination . Genes Dev 26:369-38 Neumann FR , Dion V , Gehlen L , Tsai-Pflugfelder M , Schmid R , Taddei A , Gasser SM - 2008 Functional Targeting of DNA Damage to a Nuclear Pore-associated SUMO-dependent Ubiquitin ligase . Science , 322 , 597 - 602 Nagai S , Dubrana K , Tsai-Pflugfelder M , Davidson MB , Roberts TM , Brown GW , Varela E , Hediger F , Gasser SM* and Krogan NJ - 2005 Automatic tracking of individual fluorescence particles - Application to the study of chromosome dynamics . IEEE Transactions on Image Processing , 14 , 1372 – 1383 Sage D , Neumann FR , Hediger F , Gasser SM and Unser M - 2004 INO80 recruitment by H2A phosphorylation links ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling with DNA double-strand break repair . Cell , 119 , 777 – 788 van Attikum H , Fritsch O , Hohn B and Gasser SM External links . - Research Europe - Gassers La