Christian Muchardt

BORN : August 1965 Copenhagen – Denmark

EDUCATION :

2003: Habilitation (HDR) Paris University 7
1992-1993: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur – Paris. Research Topic: Characterization of a human SWI/SNF complex. Advisor: Prof. Moshe Yaniv.
1992: PhD in Microbiology-Biotechnology, INSA Toulouse. Thesis: Transcriptional regulation of the human retroviruses HIV-1 and HTLV-1. Research studies were done in the laboratory of Dr Richard Gaynor at UCLA.

LABORATORIES :

2006-present: Head Unit. « Epigenetic Regulation » at the Institut Pasteur. Unit rated “outstanding” by the HCERES evaluation committee in February 2015.
1999-2006: Group leader. « Chromatin, transcription, and diseases ». CNRS unit headed by Moshe Yaniv at the Institut Pasteur.
1996-1999: Group leader. « Remodeling of chromatin during transcription ». CNRS unit headed by Moshe Yaniv at the Institut Pasteur.

Honors:

Advisory commitees

2010-2013: Elected member of the Scientific Evaluation Committee (COMESP) at the Institut Pasteur.
2006-2011: Membre de la commission d’expertise régionale « Ile de France » (CR1) de l’ARC.
2005-2009: Membre du conseil scientifique national de la LIGUE CONTRE LE CANCER, Président de la commission d’expertise « génétique et oncogenèse » (section 1).
1998-2004: Membre nommé du Comité National de la Recherche Scientifique (Section 23)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the editorial board of “Epigenomics”

RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION

2012-present: Deputy Director of the Departement of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

2006-2009: Président du Comité de Site “Fernbach-Animalerie” à l’Institut Pasteur.

NETWORKS

• Régulation Épigénétique