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Pierre-Alain Binz |
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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 1, Michel-Servet CH-1211 Genève 4 Switzerland Phone Number: +41-22-379 50 50 (secretary) Fax Number:
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Native from Fribourg,
Switzerland, I obtained a scientific maturity at the Collège
St-Michel
in 1987. In 1991 I got a degree in chemistry at the Department
of Chemistry of the University of
Fribourg
where I did a diploma thesis in physical chemistry and another one in
organic
chemistry. In 1996 I have completed my PhD thesis at the Institute
of Biochemistry of the University of Zürich in the group of Prof.
Jeremias H.R. Kägi. Then I've been working as a postdoc at the
Clinical Chemistry Central Laboratory of the Geneva
University Hospital in the research group of
Prof.
Denis Hochstrasser (LCCC-2D) and at the Medical
Biochemistry Departement of the Medicine
Faculty at the University of Geneva
with Prof. Amos Bairoch.
I'm now senior scientist in the Proteome
Informatics group of Prof.
Ron Appel at the Swiss Institute
of
Bioinformatics (SIB).
My current interests are focused on the development and the use of technologies dedicated to proteomics, i.e. the global and large scale analysis of proteins. This includes technologies like two-dimensional electrophoresis, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. On the bioinformatics side, I'm involved in design and development of protein identification and characterization tools, protein and genomic sequence databases, the implementation of a LIMS (laboratory information management system). I'm still taking care of the Metallothionein website, a reminiscence of my PhD time.
Antoine de Daruvar (LION Biosciences) and myself have recently organised a workshop in data integration in Functional Genomics and proteomics in Geneva, October 15-17th, 2001, financed by a European Science Fundation program. Go and have a look at the workshop homepage or at the Functional Genomics ESF network web page.
My research projects at the University of Zürich
The clue of the various projects I was involved in during my PhD was the study of the family of small metal-binding proteins: the Metallothioneins (MTs).The various aspects I have scrutinised were:
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