Geldwerth-feniger Danielle

Biography

Danielle GELDWERTH graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 1977. She obtained two certificates in ‘Bactériologie and Virologie Générales, at the Pasteur Institute, in 1981. Her PhD thesis was conducted under the supervision of Dr Jean Weissenbach at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In june 1983, she obtained a ‘Thèse de Docteur-Ingénieur’ diploma at the French Université Paris 7, on the isolation of DNA sequences from the human Y chromosome, and study of their sequence homologies with the human X chromosome. She joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 1984 as junior research associate, in Pr Philippe Devaux’S laboratory at the ‘Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique’ (IBPC) in Paris. In 1989-1990, she spent a one year journey in the Haematology Department at Children’S Hospital Oakland Research Institute (Drs. Bertram Lubin and Frans Kuypers’ Laboratory) in Oakland, California, USA. She has worked 5 years at INSERM in Kremlin-Bicêtre (U770, head Drs Jean-Marie Freyssinet & Cécile V. Denis), before joining the CSPBAT at Université Paris 13 in early 2011.  She is member of the interdisciplinary program ‘Imageries du Vivant’ in Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, and part of its steering committee

Research Interest

Structure and dynamics of biological membrane components; multi scale and multi modality bioimaging; health and tissular engineering Humanities (ethical and social issues associated to biomedical imaging)