Organization and leadership
Part of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Geneva, the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology is located at the Sciences campus in Geneva. It is funded by the Canton and the University of Geneva, with additional support from numerous national and international funding agencies. The Department comprises of 11 research groups, various technology platforms, and a team of technical and administrative support. The Department Director runs the institute together with a co-Director and an administrative management team.
Department Directorship
Prof. Orsolya Barabas, director
Hungarian by origin, Orsolya Barabas obtained her PhD in structural chemistry in October 2005 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. She then moved to Bethesda, MD, USA, where she carried our her postdoctoral work at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), with Dr. Frederick Dyda. In 2009, Orsolya became a Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 2021, she has been a Full Professor at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva.
More about Orsolya Barabas' research at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology can be found here.
Prof. Françoise Stutz, co-director
Born and raised in Switzerland, Françoise Stutz obtained her PhD at the University of Geneva in 1986. After two short postdocs at the FMI (Basel) and CMU (Geneva), she joined the lab of Prof. Michael Rosbash in Boston, USA. In 1997, she started her own group as an SNF professor at the Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne. In 2003, she moved to the Dept. of Cell Biology at University of Geneva, where she became professor in 2010. Françoise was elected EMBO member in 2013.
More about Françoise Stutz's research at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biologycan be found here.
Orsolya and Françoise teamed up to take over the Department leadership in July 2022.
Technology platform leaders
| CryoGEnic facility (DCI Geneva) | Christoph BAUER | +41 (0)22 379 66 32 | |
| Bioimaging center | Christoph BAUER | +41 (0)22 379 66 32 | |
| iGE3 Genomic platform | Mylène DOCQUIER | +41 (0)22 379 50 31 | |
| Flow Cytometry | Stéphanie HUGUES | +41 (0)22 379 58 93 | |
| Protein production facility | Oscar VADAS | +41 (0)22 379 56 71 | |
| Peptide production facility | Oliver HARTLEY | +41 (0)22 379 54 75 | |
| BioCode: RNA to proteins (R2P) | Olesya PANASENKO | +41 (0)22 379 56 51 | |
| Proteomics core facility | Alexandre HAINARD | +41 (0)22 379 59 28 | |
| Electron microscopy facility | Michelangelo FOTI | +41 (0)22 379 52 04 | |
| Geneva antibody facility | +41 (0)22 379 52 95 | ||
| BioSC | José Manuel NUNES | +41 (0)22 379 36 83 | |
| BioImaging - Medecine faculty | |||
| ACCESS Geneva | Dimitri Moreau | +41 (0)22 379 61 96 |
Administrative assistants
| Cécile Bulut | +41 22 379 61 93 | Sc3 3084 | |
| Agnès Lakhoua | +41 22 379 61 97 | Sc3 3082 | |
| Francesca Losapio | +41 22 379 30 54 | Sc3 2003B | |
| Fabrice Mermoud | +41 22 379 61 29 | Sc3 3082 | |
| Carol Metroz | +41 22 379 66 70 | Sc3 2003B | |
| Véronica Pinna Rodriguez | +41 22 379 61 94 | Sc3 3084 |