User:Etchevers

Heather Etchevers

Short CV

1992	Wellesley College, Massachusetts (USA)
1998	Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, California (USA)
1999	Ph.D. Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (equivalence for France)
1999-2002	Postdoc with N. Le Douarin at the IECM, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
2002-2003	Postdoc with S. Lyonnet and M. Vekemans, INSERM, Necker Children’s Hospital, Paris, France
since 2003	Group leader (Avenir), Necker Children’s Hospital, Paris, France
2004	Chargé de recherche, INSERM

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Where I've been to learn things:

1988	Pathology Department, Newton-Wellesley Hospital	Massachusetts, USA
1990	Management Basics Program, Wellesley College	Massachusetts, USA
1990	Summer Student Program, The Jackson Laboratory	Maine, USA
1992	Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Internationales Musikinstitut	Darmstadt, Germany
2002	Course in Scientific Management, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	Maryland, USA
2004	Personne Compétente en Radioprotection, (Radiation Safety Officer qualification) Université Réné Descartes – Paris 5	Paris, France

Awards and Distinctions

Programme Avenir, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale 2002-2005

Predoctoral Fellow in the Biological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1993-1998

Director, Conseil Médico-Scientifique de l’Association Naevus 2000 France-Europe depuis 1999

Phi Beta Kappa (humanities) and Sigma Xi (sciences) since 1992

Conference organization

Organizer : “ The congenital giant nevus : research and treatment. ” Satellite symposium for the 18th International Pigment Cell Conference, Egmond-aan-See (Pays-Bas), 13-sept-2002

Session moderator, scientific committee : « Congrès Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Université Paris V», Paris, 19-oct-2005 (and 2006, and 2007)

Moderator, scientific committee : « Naevus Géant Congénital, les soins et la recherche associée » Marne-la-Vallée, 12-nov-2005

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Below is a picture of chicken embryos. On the left, unoperated. The right two frames show degrees of synophthalmia and holoprosencephaly (with reduction of forebrain tissue) in cephalic neural crest-ablated subjects. The forebrain territory itself had not been operated. This demonstrates that neural crest cells are vital to the survival of the telencephalon and much of the diencephalon. The effect is a phenocopy of interfering with the Sonic hedgehog signaling cascade either through gene mutations or teratogen exposure. No one cites this work very much because a colleague at the time carried it further and published in 2004. I just posted it so I could copy the link over to my blog.

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• Alethea 08:17, 19 June 2008 (UTC):