Prof. Roman Ulm
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Geneva, Sciences III
30 Quai E. Ansermet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-379-3650
Email: roman.ulm@unige.ch
Born in 1973 in Basel, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss
2017 -
Director, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva
2015 -
Full Professor, Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva
2010 - 2015
Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2005 - 2010
Independent Group Leader of a DFG-funded Emmy Noether Research Group, Department of Botany, Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Germany
2002 - 2005
Junior Group Leader, Department of Botany, Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Germany (supervisors: Eberhard Schäfer and Ferenc Nagy) (funding through the Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation to Ferenc Nagy, BRC, Szeged, Hungary)
1999
Three-month visiting scientist, Rockefeller University, New York, USA (Nam-Hai Chua laboratory)
1998 - 2002
Ph.D. thesis "Arabidopsis MAP kinase phosphatase 1: a regulator of environmental stress responses" (Jerzy Paszkowski laboratory, Friedrich Miescher Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, Basel, Switzerland)
1993 - 1997
Studies in Biology I, University of Basel, Switzerland
1989 - 1992
Gymnasium Oberwil, BL
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2024: Lucca (Barga), Italy - Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Photosensory Receptors & Signal Transduction
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2024: Bhubaneswar, India - EMBO Workshop, International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP)
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2022: Kraków, Poland - Keynote lecture, 4th Network Meeting UV4Plants
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2021: Salzburg, Austria (virtual) - 19th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology
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2021: CSHL, USA (virtual) - International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
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2019: Barcelona, Spain - ESP-IUPB World Congress on Light and Life
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2019: Barcelona, Spain - International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
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2019: Columbia, MO, USA - IPG2019 “Plant Signaling in Biotic and Abiotic Stress”
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2018: Matsue, Japan - International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
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2016: Galveston, TX, USA - Discussion Leader and Speaker, Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Photosensory Receptors & Signal Transduction
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2015: Aveiro, Portugal - 16th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology
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2015: Austin, TX, USA - Keynote lecture, International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
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2014: Córdoba, Argentina - Finsen Award Lecture, 16th International Congress on Photobiology
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2013: Liège, Belgium - Keynote lecture, 15th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology
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2013: Edinburgh, UK - International Symposium of Plant Photobiology
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2012: Jeju, Korea - 10th International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB)
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2012: Galveston, TX, USA - Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Photosensory Receptors & Signal Transduction
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2011: Tübingen, Germany - 12th Symposium on Plant Protein Phosphorylation
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2011: Beijing, China - International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
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2009: Glasgow, UK - Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Annual Main Meeting
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2009: Wroclaw, Poland - 13th Congress of the European Society for Photobiology
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2009: Düsseldorf, Germany - 15th International Congress of Photobiology
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2006: Paris, France - International Symposium on Plant Photobiology
2014 Finsen Award Lecture, International Union of Photobiology (IUPB)
2012 - 2017 ERC Starting Grant (Consolidator)
2005 - 2010 Emmy Noether Programme (DFG)
2003 - 2005 EMBO long-term fellowship
2002 Ph.D. (summa cum laude), University of Basel
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Co-organizer, workshops in Plant Light Responses (2011) and Plant Responses to a Dynamic Environment (2017) in frame of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology & CUSO Doctoral Program in Molecular Plant Sciences.
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Since 2011, our lab has been involved yearly in the "Studienwoche, Biologische und medizinische Genetik, Schweizer Jugend forscht / Semaines d'étude, Génie génétique en biologie et médecine, La Science appelle les jeunes".
