Claudia Cosio
Dr Claudia Cosio
Former Research Associate
WORK EXPERIENCES
| 05/2008- | Geneva University Research Associate, Ecotoxicology and biology laboratory, Forel Institute. Assessing aquatic plant and moss potential for bioremediation, biomarker and biomonitoring of waters polluted by heavy metals: • Genomics, proteomics, ecotoxicology, …. • Microcosms and field studies |
| 09/2004- 02/2008 |
Geneva University Post-doc, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Physiology. Molecular and functional analysis of class III peroxidases: • Macroarrays, immunoprecipitation, IEF, SDS-PAGE, …. • Curation of Peroxidase database (http://peroxidase.isb-sib.ch/). |
| 11/2000- 03/2004 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne PhD student, Soil science laboratory. Biochemical and molecular study of metal tolerance, transport and storage in plants: • Microarrays, protoplasts, radiotracer studies, microscopy, chemical analysis (ICP-AES, GF-AAS), hydropony…. • Field and green house studies. |
| 05/1999- 12/1999 |
Cornell University, Ithaca (USA) Research assistant, Department of Plant Pathology. Molecular study of resistance to thaxtomin A in A. thaliana: • Screening and genes mapping (CAPS, SSLP) of plants. • Crossing of the identified mutants. |
TRAINING PERIODS
| 02-09/1998 | Biocem Pacific - Limagrain, Canberra (Australia) Construction of a plant inducible promoter. |
| 06/1997 | Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg (France) Directed mutagenesis of ORF2 from the cacao swollen shoot virus. |
| 07/1996 | National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico (Mexico) Biochemical study of plant-mycorrhiza interactions. |
STUDIES
| 2000-2004 | PhD in plant physiology, EPFL, Lausanne |
| 1997-1998 | Master in cellular and molecular biology, ULP, Strasbourg (France). |
| 1995-1998 | Engineering degree in Biotechnology, ESBS, Strasbourg (France). |
| 1993-1995 | Undergraduate studies in Biology, Geneva University |