Prof. Dr. Michal Wieczorek

Prof. Dr.  Michal Wieczorek

Prof. Dr. Michal Wieczorek

Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology

ETH Zürich

Inst. f. Molekularbiol.u.Biophysik

HPK D 17

Otto-Stern-Weg 5

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

personal information

October 24, 1987, Athens, Greece

Scientific Interests

Biological self-assembly | cell biology & the cytoskeleton | in vitro reconstitutions | structural biology

positions

since 01/2022

Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich

Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biophysics

08/2015-08/2017

Venture Development Associate

Tandem Launch, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

Education and Training

08/2017 - 12/2021

Postdoc with Tarun Kapoor

The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

01/2010 - 08/2015

PhD with Gary Brouhard

Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

09/2005 - 12/2009

BSc in Biophysics

University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Awards

2018 | HFSP Long Term Fellowship | 2018-2021

2018 | Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship

2018 | NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)

2014 | FQRNT Bourses de Doctorat en Recherche

2012 | ASCB Graduate Travel Award

2011 | NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Doctoral level | 2011-2014

2010 | NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Masters level | 2010-2011

2008 | NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award

Invited Scientific Talks

2022

D-BIOL Research Symposium | ETH Zurich | Davos, Switzerland

2021

Wellcome Center for Cell Biology Seminar Series | University of Edinburgh | virtual

2020

Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series | Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry | virtual

2013

American Society for Cell Biology Minisymposium | San Francisco, CA, USA

Teaching

2014 | Teaching Assistant | Undergraduate practical course | Cell and Molecular Biology Methods

2009 | Teaching Assistant | Undergraduate theory course | Statistical Mechanics

Memberships in Scientific Societies

since 2012 | American Society for Cell Biology

Course Catalogue

Autumn Semester 2024

Number Unit
551-1609-00L Single Molecule Biophysics Studies of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton
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