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Susan Gasser

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In this episode we talk to Susan Gasser about her journey to institute director and how she dealt with the challenges of the job.We discuss about how to choose a good project and to focus on the scientific questionSusan stresses the importance of building a lab culture based on collaboration and teamworkShe shares her advice how to manage conflicts and provide criticism without it getting personalWe talk about Women In Science awards and the future of European scienceSusan shares some personal advice about the importance of coaching and self-awarenessShe also gives tips about getting balance right between work and family and between Science and administrative responsibilitiesShe mentions these labs and institutionsFriedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)https://www.fmi.ch/Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Researchhttps://www.isrec.ch/University of Genevahttps://www.unige.ch/Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)https://www.novartis.com/our-science/novartis-institutes-biomedical-researchShe also paid tribute to her mentor Gottfried (Jeff) Schatzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_SchatzAnd the Lee Hartwell paper in Science 1974 “Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast”https://science.sciencemag.org/content/183/4120/46To find out more about Susan visit her lab website or follow her on Twitterhttps://www.fmi.ch/research-groups/website/gasserlab/https://twitter.com/susan_gasserSubscribe and receive the next podcast in you mailbox : https://www.bit.ly/TLPsubscribeTo find out more aboutRenaud :Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpreLinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/Jonathan :Twitter : https://twitter.com/EpigenetiqueLinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/ To learn more about the soundtrack :Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindlerhttps://soundcloud.com/aTo find out more about Renaud and Jonathan :  Twitter : https://twitter.com/LePourpre  LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique  LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20   More about the soundtrack :Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/

In this episode we talk to Susan Gasser about her journey to institute director and how she dealt with the challenges of the job.<ul><li>We discuss about how to choose a good project and to focus on the scientific question</li><li>Susan stresses the importance of building a lab culture based on collaboration and teamwork</li><li>She shares her advice how to manage conflicts and provide criticism without it getting personal</li><li>We talk about Women In Science awards and the future of European science</li><li>Susan shares some personal advice about the importance of coaching and self-awareness</li><li>She also gives tips about getting balance right between work and family and between Science and administrative responsibilities</li></ul> She mentions these labs and institutions<ul><li>Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)</li></ul><a href="https://www.fmi.ch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fmi.ch/</a><ul><li>Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research</li></ul><a href="https://www.isrec.ch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.isrec.ch/</a><ul><li>University of Geneva</li></ul><a href="https://www.unige.ch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.unige.ch/</a><ul><li>Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)</li></ul><a href="https://www.novartis.com/our-science/novartis-institutes-biomedical-research" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.novartis.com/our-science/novartis-institutes-biomedical-research</a><ul><li>She also paid tribute to her mentor Gottfried (Jeff) Schatz</li></ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Schatz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Schatz</a><ul><li>And the Lee Hartwell paper in Science 1974 </li></ul>“Genetic control of the cell division cycle in yeast”<a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/183/4120/46" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/183/4120/46</a> To find out more about Susan visit her lab website or follow her on Twitter<ul><li><a href="https://www.fmi.ch/research-groups/website/gasserlab/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fmi.ch/research-groups/website/gasserlab/</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/susan_gasser" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/susan_gasser</a></li></ul> Subscribe and receive the next podcast in you mailbox : <a href="https://www.bit.ly/TLPsubscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bit.ly/TLPsubscribe</a> To find out more about Renaud :<ul><li>Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/LePourpre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/LePourpre</a></li><li>LinkedIn : <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/</a></li></ul> Jonathan :<ul><li>Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/Epigenetique" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Epigenetique</a></li><li>LinkedIn : <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/ </a></li></ul> To learn more about the soundtrack : Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;v=AchlJ29XQYU&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Famariamusique%2F&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDBnbm9ocDVLSmVSNy05VmNoVFk5dnFFUzlnQXxBQ3Jtc0ttLXdhc0hOZ0dsZzJXTGxRUVFnalY2ZGdyOWdHREJkeXdUUTkxR0oxR1AzUmRzRklPMVlLNXVZWHRWeWRQZDI0SWczYnhnLXBGTkhaSS1JaFhLc1N2UjgzVEFodU9QVW8xajdXMWg0MHladjd5aTRmRQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/a</a>To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan : <ul> <li>Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/LePourpre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/LePourpre</a> </li> <li>LinkedIn : <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/renaudpourpre/</a> </li> <li>Twitter : <a href="https://twitter.com/Epigenetique" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/Epigenetique</a> </li> <li>LinkedIn : <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20</a> </li> </ul> More about the soundtrack : Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler <a href="https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/</a>

TLP #2 : Challenges of an institute director - Susan Gasser

In the sixth Episode of Active Motif's Epigenetics Podcast our host Dr. Stefan Dillinger sits down with Prof. Susan Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, to talk about her research on heterochromatin, its localization in the nucleus and factors that are involved in the anchoring genomic regions at the nuclear periphery.   References  Gasser Lab - https://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/website/gasserlab/researchtopics.php  Peter Zeller, Jan Padeken, … Susan M. Gasser (2016) Histone H3K9 methylation is dispensable for Caenorhabditis elegans development but suppresses RNA:DNA hybrid-associated repeat instability (Nature Genetics) DOI: 10.1038/ng.3672 Adriana Gonzalez-Sandoval, Benjamin D. Towbin, … Susan M. Gasser (2015) Perinuclear Anchoring of H3K9-Methylated Chromatin Stabilizes Induced Cell Fate in C. elegans Embryos (Cell) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.066 Benjamin D. Towbin, Cristina González-Aguilera, … Susan M. Gasser (2012) Step-Wise Methylation of Histone H3K9 Positions Heterochromatin at the Nuclear Periphery (Cell) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.051  Contact https://twitter.com/epigenetics_pod  https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/35651/  https://www.facebook.com/ActiveMotifInc/ eurotech@activemotif.com

In the sixth Episode of Active Motif's Epigenetics Podcast our host Dr. Stefan Dillinger sits down with Prof. Susan Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, to talk about her research on heterochromatin, its localization in the nucleus and factors that are involved in the anchoring genomic regions at the nuclear periphery. References <ul><li>Gasser Lab - <a href="https://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/website/gasserlab/researchtopics.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.fmi.ch/research/groupleader/website/gasserlab/researchtopics.php </a></li> <li>Peter Zeller, Jan Padeken, … Susan M. Gasser (2016) <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3672" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Histone H3K9 methylation is dispensable for Caenorhabditis elegans development but suppresses RNA:DNA hybrid-associated repeat instability</a> (Nature Genetics) DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.3672" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10.1038/ng.3672</a></li> <li>Adriana Gonzalez-Sandoval, Benjamin D. Towbin, … Susan M. Gasser (2015) <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(15)01422-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perinuclear Anchoring of H3K9-Methylated Chromatin Stabilizes Induced Cell Fate in C. elegans Embryos</a> (Cell) DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.066" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.066</a></li> <li>Benjamin D. Towbin, Cristina González-Aguilera, … Susan M. Gasser (2012) <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867412009439" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Step-Wise Methylation of Histone H3K9 Positions Heterochromatin at the Nuclear Periphery</a> (Cell) DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.051" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.051</a></li> </ul> Contact <ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/epigenetics_pod" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/epigenetics_pod </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/35651/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/35651/ </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ActiveMotifInc/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ActiveMotifInc/</a></li> <li>eurotech@activemotif.com</li></ul>

Chromatin Organization (Susan Gasser)