Fankhauser Christian
Professor
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Universite de Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Christian Fankhauser received his PhD from the University of Lausanne in 1994 after carrying out his thesis at Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in the laboratory of Dr. Viesturs Simanis. He performed postdoctoral studies with Dr. Marty Yanofsky at UCSD then with Dr. Joanne Chory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego. He became a Swiss National Science Foundation Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology of the University of Geneva in 2000. He joined the Center for Integrative Genomics in January 2005, where he was appointed Associate Professor. In 2011 he was promoted to Professor.
Research Interest
Both genetic and environmental factors influence growth and development of any living organism. Plant development is very plastic and is constantly modulated by environmental fluctuations. Being photoautotrophic plants are particularly sensitive to their light environment. Light affects every major transition of the life cycle of a plant.
Publications
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Juthamas Chaiwanon, Wenfei Wang, Jia-Ying Zhu, Eunkyoo Oh, Zhi-Yong Wang Cell. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 Mar 10.Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2016 Mar 10; 164(6): 1257–1268. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.044 PMCID: PMC5126258
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Scott Hayes, Ashutosh Sharma, Donald P. Fraser, Martine Trevisan, C. Kester Cragg-Barber, Eleni Tavridou, Christian Fankhauser, Gareth I. Jenkins, Keara A. Franklin Curr Biol. 2017 Jan 9; 27(1): 120–127. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.11.004 PMCID: PMC5226890
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Olivier Michaud, Anne-Sophie Fiorucci, Ioannis Xenarios, Christian Fankhauser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jul 11; 114(28): 7444–7449. Published online 2017 Jun 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702276114 PMCID: PMC5514730
