Person
Peri, Francesca
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Biography and Research Interest
Short CV
01.01.2018 Full Professor, IMLS, UZH, Switzerland
2008-2017 Group Leader at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
2002-2007 Postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
1997 PhD, University of Cologne, Germany
Studies in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Padua, Italy
Biography
Francesca was born in Mestre, near Venice (Italy). She studied Biology, and she graduated from the University of Padova (Italy). For her PhD, Francesca moved to Cologne in Germany where she worked with Siegfried Roth on the establishment of the dorsoventral and anteroposterior polarity in Drosophila. After obtaining her PhD in 2001, she joined the lab of Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard at the Max-Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in Tüningen (Germany). During her postdoc, she started working on how microglia, the brain immune cells, engulf and digest dying neurons using zebrafish. In 2008 Francesca became a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. She received an ERC Starting grant in 2010 and her lab continued exploiting the massive imaging potential of the transparent fish embryo to investigate microglia and their interaction with neurons. Since 2018 Francesca is a Full Professor at the University of Zürich.
When she is not in the lab, Francesca enjoys spending time with her family. She loves reading, cooking and travelling.
01.01.2018 Full Professor, IMLS, UZH, Switzerland
2008-2017 Group Leader at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
2002-2007 Postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
1997 PhD, University of Cologne, Germany
Studies in Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Padua, Italy
Biography
Francesca was born in Mestre, near Venice (Italy). She studied Biology, and she graduated from the University of Padova (Italy). For her PhD, Francesca moved to Cologne in Germany where she worked with Siegfried Roth on the establishment of the dorsoventral and anteroposterior polarity in Drosophila. After obtaining her PhD in 2001, she joined the lab of Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard at the Max-Plank Institute for Developmental Biology in Tüningen (Germany). During her postdoc, she started working on how microglia, the brain immune cells, engulf and digest dying neurons using zebrafish. In 2008 Francesca became a group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg. She received an ERC Starting grant in 2010 and her lab continued exploiting the massive imaging potential of the transparent fish embryo to investigate microglia and their interaction with neurons. Since 2018 Francesca is a Full Professor at the University of Zürich.
When she is not in the lab, Francesca enjoys spending time with her family. She loves reading, cooking and travelling.
Non-Zebrafish Publications