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Suzanne Eaton

Suzanne Eaton

Research Group Leader

Personal Information

Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Birthdate: December 23, 1959
Marital Status: Married, 2 children

Education

1981

Sc. B. Biology, Brown University

1988

Ph. D. Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Calame


Awards

1977

New York State Regents Scholar

National Merit Scholar

1988

Association of Academic Women
Graduate Woman of the Year

Sydney C. Rittenberg Award for Distinguished
Academic Achievement in Microbiology


Fellowships and Teching Assistanceships

1980

Teaching Assistant for Biochemistry, Brown University

1982 - 1983

Teaching Assistant for Immunology, UCLA

1983 - 1986

NRSA Predoctoral Training Grant in Genetic Mechanisms

1986 - 1987

American Association of University Women
Predoctoral Fellowship

1989 - 1992

Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Cancer Research
Postdoctoral Fellowship

1993

American Cancer Society, California Division
Postdoctoral Fellowship

1994 - 1995

EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowship


Research Positions held

06/1979 - 09/1979

Summer Student Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute, Rye, New York
Transport of IgA Across the Intestine of Gnotobiotic Miniature Swine
Supervisor: Yoon Berm Kim

06/1980 - 01/1981

Independent Study
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Antibodies Activating the Activity of Beta-galactosidase
Supervisor: Boris Rotman

09/1981 - 06/1982

Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Supression of Cell-Mediated Immune Responsiveness in Leukemic AKR Mice
Supervisor: Maurice Albala

09/1982 - 06/1988

Graduate Student
University of California, Los Angeles
Molecular Analysis of an Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Promoter
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Calame

09/1988 - 10/1993

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, San Francisco
Organization of Developmental Compartments in Drosophila
Laboratory of Thomas Kornberg

11/1993 - 01/1997

Postdoctoral Fellow
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Cell Polarity in Drosophila
Laboratory of Kai Simons

02/1997 - 01/2000

European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Staff Scientist
Cell Biology/Development

01/2000 - present

Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden


Recent invited Talks at International Meetings

2001

April, 2001 EMBO Workshop: Embryonic

Organizer Signalling: The Next Frontiers

June, 2001 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology

July, 2001 4th Workshop on Developmental Cell biology of Drosophila, Walberberg

2002

July, 2002 FESEB Summer Research Conference:
Protein Lipidation, Signaling and Membrane Domains

August, 2002 Santa Cruz Conference on Developmental Biology

October, 2002 Fondacion des Treilles: Control of Information Transfer Through the Extracellular Environment

2003

January, 2003 Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones: Membranes Trafficking and Signalling During Animal Development

May, 2003 Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones; The dynamics of morphogeneis: Regulation of cell and tissue movements in development

June, 2003 EMBO Workshop
Boundaries in Development: 30 Years of Progress


Recent invited Seminars

2001

May, 2001 Universite Nice Sophia Antopolis

November, 2001 IMP Vienna

2002

September, 2002 Max Planck Institute für Entwicklungsbiologie, Tuebingen

December, 2002 MRC London

2003

March, 2003 Katholieke Universiteit Leuwen

February, 2003 Universitaet Muenster


Participation in Teaching

EMBL Predoc course 1999
Lecture: epithelial polarity
Practical: isolation of Drosophila raft membranes

MPI Predoc course, 2001
Lecture: Drosophila as a model system
Lecture: cell polarity
Practical: clonal analysis and immunohistochemistry in Drosophila

MPI Predoc course, 2002
Lecture: epithelial polarity
Practical: clonal analysis and immunohistochemistry in Drosophila


Workshop organized

06/2002

Minisymposium on morphogen gradients 2002 ELSO meeting, Nice


Grants

DFG SPP-1111, Zellpolaritaet


Reviewed Manuscripts for

Public Library of Science

Cell

Nature

Science

Development

Mechanisms of Development

Faculty of 1000


Students trained

2000

Michael Hannus,
Presently a postdoc at Cenix, Dresden

2001

Valentina Greco,
Presently a postdoc with Elaine Fuchs at Rockefeller University, New York


Committees

2000 - 2001

Seminar committee

2003

Library committee