Post date: Dec 09, 2013 8:31:54 PM
The NIH’s Visiting Fellows Committee invites you to attend a ‘Science Voices from Home’ event featuring Dr. Thierry Galli, Deputy Director of the Multi-Agency Thematic Institute (ITMO) on Cell Biology, Development and Evolution, AVIESAN. He will be talking about "Research in biology in France: opportunities and tips" followed by Q&A. As a special guest, Dr. Minh-ha Pham, Scientific Counselor and Head of the Office for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in Washington, DC will give a short introduction about the role of the Office for Science and Technology.
Date: December 19th 2013
Time: 12.30 -1.30pm (attention: changement d'heure)
Location: Building 18/32, Conference Room A
Speakers: Dr. Thierry Galli Deputy Director ITMO, Aviesan
Dr. Minh-ha Pham, Scientific Counselor, Embassy of France
A social gathering with Dr. Pham and Dr. Galli will take place right after the presentations, at ca. 4:15 pm in Bldg 18/32 Conference Room A.
Dr. Galli will also be giving a lecture entitled “Vesicular and non-vesicular membrane trafficking mechanisms in neurite growth - role of two Longin v-SNAREs VAMP7 and Sec22b”, at 2:00 pm in Bldg 18/32 Conference room A.
Dr. Thierry Galli is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon. He received his BSc in Biochemistry at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, in 1988, and his PhD at the Collège de France and the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, in 1992. He then moved to the USA to carry out postdoctoral research in Professor Pietro De Camilli's laboratory at Yale University School of Medicine. There he worked on the molecular mechanism of regulated and constitutive exocytosis. In 1995, he took his first research appointment at the French National Institute of Health (INSERM) and the Curie Institute in the laboratory of Professor Daniel Louvard, and in 2001 he was recruited as Research Director of the French National Institute of Health at the Fer-à-Moulin Institute, Paris. In 2005, he was appointed as a Group Leader at the Jacques Monod Institute, Paris. In 2012, he was elected President of the French Society of Cell Biology. In 2013, he was appointed deputy director of the multi-agency thematic institute (ITMO) Cell Biology, Development, and Evolution.
Dr. Minh-Hà Pham was appointed Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States in Washington on September 1, 2013. After coordinating scientific cooperation for the Asia-Pacific Region for the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), she served as Director of the European Research and International Cooperation Office (DERCI) in charge of implementing the European and international policy of CNRS. Dr. Pham’s scientific background is in neurobiology and the risk assessment of GMOs and pesticides on beneficial insects. She graduated from the Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon (now AgroParisTech). She obtained her PhD in neuroscience at Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6) in 1983, her Habilitation in 1992 and is a Senior Scientist at CNRS.