Curriculum Vitae

Frédéric Hai-Trieu ALLAIN
Born July 4th 1969, Bourges (France)
French citizen, Married

Education and employment :

-from april 2007
Associate Professor
Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Eidgenössiche Technische Hochshule, Zürich, Switzerland

- 8/2001-3/2007
Assistant Professor
Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Eidgenössiche Technische Hochshule, Zürich, Switzerland

- 2000-2001
Research associate
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California Los Angeles USA
Research director: Prof. Doug Black

- 1997-2000
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of California Los Angeles U.S.A
Research director: Prof. Juli Feigon.

- 1993-1996
Ph.D Cambridge University
Division of Structural studies
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology , Cambridge, UK
Research director: Dr Gabriele Varani.

Student and postdoctoral Fellowships :

-2001 Howard Hugues Medical Institute postdoctoral fellowship
-2000 Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation/UCLA postdoctoral fellowship
-1998-99 Long Term H.F.S.P.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
-1997 Long Term E.M.B.O Postdoctoral Fellowship
-1990-94 4 years student fellowship from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)

Awards :

-2009 Elected EMBO Member
-2003 EMBO Young Investigator Award
-2002 Laureat of the Fondation Schlumberger pour l’Education et la Recherche
-2000 Boyer-Parvin postdoctoral recognition award 2000
-2000 UCLA chancellor award for Postdoctoral research 2000
-1996 Max Perutz Student Prize 1996

10 most significant publications :

Dominguez C., Fisette J.-F., Chabot B., Allain F.H.-T. (2010) Structural basis of G-tract recognition and encaging by hnRNP F quasi RRMs. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 17, 853-61
Schubert M., Lapouge K., Duss O., Oberstrass F.C., Jelesarov I., Haas D., Allain F. H.-T. (2007) Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol., 14, 807-813
Hargous Y., Hautbergue G.M. , Tintaru A.M. , Skrisovska L. , Golovanov A.P., Stevenin J. , Lian L.Y., Wilson S.A. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006) EMBO J., 25, 5126-5137
Oberstrass F.C., Lee A., Stefl R., Janis M., Chanfreau G. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006) Nat. Struc. Mol. Biol., 13, 160-167
Auweter S.D., Fasan R., Reymond L., Underwood J.G., Black D.L., Pitsch S. and Allain F. H.T. (2006) EMBO J., 25, 163-173
Vitali F., Henning A., Oberstrass F.C., Hargous Y., Auweter S. D., Erat M. and Allain F.H.-T. (2006) EMBO J., 25, 150-162
Oberstrass F.C., Auweter S.D., Erat M., Hargous Y., Henning A., Wenter P., Reymond L., Amir-Ahmady B., Pitsch S., Black D. and Allain F.H.-T. (2005) Science, 309, 2054-2057
Allain, F.H-.T., Bouvet, P., Dieckmann, T and Feigon J. (2000) EMBO J. 19, 6870-6881
Allain, F.H-.T., Yen, Y.M., Masse, J.E., Schultze, P., Dieckmann, T., Johnson, R.C. and Feigon, J. (1999) EMBO J. 18, 2563-2579
Allain F.H.-T., Gubser C.C., Howe P.W.A, Nagai K., Neuhaus D. and Varani G (1996) Nature, 380, 646-650

Academic activities :

- Member of the steering committee of the “Life Science Zurich Ph-D program” (2002-2007).
- Member of the admission committee of the “Life Science Zurich Ph-D program” (2003-2005).
- Member of the Editorial Board of Nucleic Acid Research (since 2006)
- Member of the advisory board for studies within the Department of Chemistry at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France (since 2006)
- Director of the Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism PhD program (since 2006)
- Vice-Chair of the Molecular Life Science PhD program (2004-2007)
- Chairman of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Since 2008)