Sarah Amalia Teichmann
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Institute |
EMBL-European Bioinformatics & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
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Phone |
+44 1223 492520 |
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Career to Date
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1981-1993 |
European School Karlsruhe (Germany) |
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1993-1996 |
Trinity College, Cambridge University, B.A., Biochemisty project on “Global fold determination from limited NMR data” in the laboratory of Prof. E.D. Laue |
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1996-2000 |
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Trinity College, Cambridge, PhD in laboratory of Dr. C. Chothia FRS |
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2000-2001 |
Postdoctoral research with Dame Prof Dame J. Thronton FRS FMedSci in the Dept Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, |
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2001-2005 |
MRC Career Track Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, |
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2005-present |
Fellow & Director of Studies, |
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2006-2012 |
MRC Programme Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK |
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From Feb 2013 |
Principal Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory/Physics Dept., Cambridge University |
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From Feb 2013 |
Research Group Leader at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute & Senior Group Leader of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
Prizes and Distinctions
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During undergraduate study: |
German National Merit Scholarship; |
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During PhD: |
Boehringer Ingelheim Predoctoral Fellowship, |
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As postdoctoral scientist: |
Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research |
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As group leader: |
EMBO Young Investigator (2003-2006), |
Other Activities
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UK representative on HFSP Council of Scientists, 2013-2015 |
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Member of the Executive Council of the Protein Society, 2011-2014 |
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Consulting on European Patent Office patent case for three days during the year 2010 |
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Outreach: host for composer Deirdre Gribbin to compose a string quartet “Hearing your genes evolve”, funded by a Leverhulme Artist in Residence award at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 2011/12 |
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Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Molecular Biology Institute, Bergen, 2006-present |
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Member of Structural Studies Division Committee, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 2007-2012 |
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Trustee of the Max Perutz Fund, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Charity, 2010-2012 |
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Committee member on the following Trinity College committees at various times, 2005-present: |
Funding
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2001-2012 |
Core funding from MRC |
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2002 and 2007 |
Grants for funding summer studentships from Education & Research Fund, Trinity College, Cambridge |
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2003-2006 |
EMBO Young Investigator’s Grant of EUR 49.000 |
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2005-2009 |
MRC Capacity Building Studentship in Bioinformatics |
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2010-2015 |
Lister Research Prize of GBP 200.000 |
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2010-2015 |
European Research Council Starting Grant of approx EUR 1.400.000 |
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2010 |
Member of EU COST Network on Next Generation Sequence Data Analysis |
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2011 |
Associate member of EpiGeneSys EU Network of Excellence |
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2011 |
BBSRC CASE Studentship with Abcam plc |
Direction and Supervision of Research Programme
8 PhD students have graduated (Dr M. Madan Babu, 2001-4, now independent group leader at MRC-LMB; Dr S. Kummerfeld, 2002-5, now computational biologist at Genentech; Dr J. Han, 2003-8; Dr E. Levy, 2004-8, now group leader at Weizmann Institute; Dr S. De 2005-8, now faculty at U. Colorado; Dr V. Charoensawan 2006-1010, now faculty member at Mahidol University; Dr J. Su, now postdoc at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Dr T. Perica, postdoc in my group)
2 PhD students currently in progress
5 Postdocs finished, 4 now principal investigators (J. Leal, B. Adryan, J. Gsponer, D. Hebenstreit)
6 Postdocs currently in progress
5 Master’s thesis students at Cambridge University, 10 summer students, 5 visitors in total since 2001
Teaching and Examination
PhD examiner in Cambridge (7x), in England (2x) in Sweden (2x), in Switzerland (1x) and in the Netherlands (1x).
Undergraduate admissions examination and interviewing in Trinity College, Cambridge, every year from 2005-2011.
Teaching supervisions to students of Trinity College, Cambridge, in Biology of Cells (Part IA Natural Science Tripos), Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Cell & Developmental Biology (both Part IB Natural Science Tripos) for two to three hours per week, 1996-1999 and 2001-2002, and five to six hours per week since 2005 (currently on teaching leave via Lister Prize teaching replacement).
Invited Presentations
Ten selected from over 120 conference presentations:
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November 2001 |
International Conference on Systems Biology, ISMB2001, CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA |
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October 2002 |
Keynote speech at European Conference on Computational Biology, ECCB2002, Saarbrücken, Germany |
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April 2005 |
Royal Society meeting “Bioinformatics: from Molecules to Systems”, London, UK |
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January 2006 |
Gordon conference on “Protein Folding Dynamics” in Ventura, CA, USA |
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August 2006 |
EMBO/SNF conference “The Genomics of Development “, Arolla, Switzerland |
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May 2007 |
European Symposium of the Protein Society, Stockholm, Sweden |
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October 2007 |
Wellcome Trust/CSHL conference on “Functional Genomics & Systems Biology” in Hinxton, UK |
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September 2008 |
International Structural Genomics Organisation conference, Oxford, UK |
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November 2008 |
EMBO conference “From Functional Genomics to Systems Biology”, Heidelberg, Germany |
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August 2009 |
The 1st EMBO Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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October 2011 |
17th International Biophysics Congress, Beijing |
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March 2012 |
CSHL conference “Global Regulation of Gene Expression”, USA |
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June 2013 |
Bernhard-Rensch-Lecture, Munster, Germany |
Organisation of International Conferences
Co-chair of conferences: “Information Processing in Cells & Tissues”, Cambridge, 2012 and NEScent (Durham, North Carolina) meeting “Modeling protein structural and energetic constraints on sequence evolution”, 2011.
Member of conference committees: Computability in Europe 2011, Solvay Conference on Biological Circuits, 2012.
Organised one-day “Proteins, Genomes & Evolution” symposium at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in July 2007.
Gordon Research Conferences:
Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conferences, “Structural, Functional & Evolutionary Genomics”, 2007, “Biomolecular Interactions and Methods”, 2012.
CSHL Conferences:
Session chair/organiser, Wellcome Trust/CSHL conference on Genome Informatics, 2006.
Co-chair, CSHL conference “Systems Biology: Global Regulation of Gene Expression”, 2014.
Peer Reviewer for Journals and Grant Agencies
Journals:
Cell, Nature, Nature Genetics, Science, Nature Structure & Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the Natl Acad USA, Nature Biotech, PLoS Biology, Blood, Genome Research, Genome Biology, and over 15 further journals.
Grant Agencies:
MRC (grants and quinquennial reviews of programmes), BBSRC, ERC, Swiss National Science foundation, French and German agencies.
Membership of Editorial Boards
Science (Board of Reviewing Editors since April 2012),
Biochem J.,
Biology Direct,
PLoS Comp Biol,
Briefings in Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics,
BMC Evol Biol,
Faculty of 1000,
Cell Reports,
J Mol Biol,
Section editor for “Sequences & Topology” for Curr Op in Struc Biol, 2006, 2008, 2010,
Section editor for “Genomes & Evolution” for Curr Op in Genetics and Development, 2008,
Associate Editor at J Exp Zoology B: Mol and Dev Evol.
Publications
Over 90 publications overall, over 6600 citations in total, and citation H-index of 43.