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Pierre Gönczy

School of Life Sciences, EPFL

About Pierre Gönczy

Pierre Gönczy is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at EPFL. His main research interests lie in understanding fundamental cell division processes, notably in the context of a developing organism and with a focus on the mechanisms governing centriole biogenesis and centrosome duplication as well as asymmetric cell division, a crucial phenomena for generating cellular diversity during development and in stem cell lineages. To address these fundamental biological questions, his lab uses a combination of genetic, functional genomic, biochemical, proteomic and cell biological approaches, primarily in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and in human cells in culture.

Read more about Pierre Gönczy’s research on his lab website.

Contact

Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
EPFL SV ISREC UPGON
Station 19
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone : +41 (0)21 693 07 11

Publications

Georgios N. Hatzopoulos, Tim Kükenshöner, Niccolò Banterle, Tatiana Favez, Isabelle Flückiger, Virginie Hamel, Santiago Andany, Georg E. Fantner, Oliver Hantschel & Pierre Gönczy, “Tuning SAS-6 architecture with monobodies impairs distinct steps of centriole assembly”, Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 3805, 2021. Open access. Dataset info [More Information]

Dora Mahecic, Davide Gambarotto, Kyle M. Douglass, Denis Fortun, Niccoló Banterle, Khalid A. Ibrahim, Maeva Le Guennec, Pierre Gönczy, Virginie Hamel, Paul Guichard and Suliana Manley, “Homogeneous multifocal excitation for high-throughput super-resolution imaging”, Nature Methods, 17, 726–733, 2020. Dataset info: “Homogeneous multifocal excitation for high-throughput super-resolution imaging - Expanded centriole particles“ [More Information]