Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber

Silvia Arber
Nationality Swiss
Fields Neurobiologist
Institutions Columbia University, Friedrich Miescher Institute, Biozentrum University of Basel

Silvia Arberis a Swiss neurobiologist. She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland.

Life

Silvia Arber studied biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and completed her doctorate in 1995 at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel. She subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Columbia University in New York. In 2000, Silvia Arber returned to Basel as a Professor of Neurobiology/Cell Biology continuing her research work and teaching at the Biozentrum as well as at the FMI. Silvia Arber is the daughter of the Swiss microbiologist and geneticist Werner Arber, who in 1978 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.[1]

Work

Silvia Arber investigates the mechanisms involved in the function and assembly of neuronal circuits controlling motor behavior. She has shown that premotor interneuron groups differ from each other in their functionality and distribution in the spinal cord and that this property depends on the timing of their generation during development.[2]

Awards & Honors

References

  1. ↑ Curriculium Vitae
  2. ↑ Research Group
  3. ↑ Pfizer Forschungspreis
  4. ↑ National Latsis Prize
  5. ↑ Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  6. ↑ Schellenberg Prize
  7. ↑ Friedrich Miescher Award
  8. ↑ ERC Advanced Investigators Grant
  9. ↑ Silvia Arber receives Otto Naegeli Prize 2014 Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  10. ↑ Elected Member of the Academia Europaea ae-info.org. Retrieved 2014-9-04
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