2011 Laureate
Current position
Group leader, Research director (DR2), Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique
Host institution
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France CNRS, France
arnaud.echard@pasteur.fr
Cells undergoing a division, linked by a cytokinesis bridge (scanning electron microscope)
Arnaud Echard is interested in the role of membrane trafficking in lipid and cytoskeleton remodeling at each step of animal cell division.
• 1992 Admitted to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
• 1995 “Agrégation” in Biochemistry
• 2000 Ph. D., University of Paris XI, Institut Curie, Paris, France, Bruno Goud’s lab
• 2000-2003 Post-doctoral fellow, UCSF, San Francisco, USA, PatrickO’Farrell’s lab
• 2003 Appointed Research scientist (CR2), CNRS, France
• 2010 Appointed Group leader, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
• Elected Vice-President of the French Society for Cell Biology (SBCF), 2012
• Medical Research Foundation Award (FRM team), 2011
• N. Demassieux Biological Science Thesis Prize from the Universities of Paris, 2000
Oxidation of F-actin controls the terminal steps of cytokinesis.
Feb 2017, Nat Commun.
SLK-dependent activation of ERM controls LGN/NuMA localization and spindle orientation
Jun 2014, J Cell Biol