Biography Lena Pernas

Affiliated Research Group Pernas

Scientific Career

 
2023 - present Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
University of California, Los Angeles
2019 - 2023 Max Planck Research Group Leader
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany
2014 - 2018 Life Science Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow       
with Dr. Luca Scorrano, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy
2008 - 2013 NSF/GRFP Graduate Fellow
with Dr. John Boothroyd, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, USA
2006 - 2008 MARC Undergraduate Fellow
with Dr. Kent Hill, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA, USA

Education

2008 - 2013 Stanford University School of Medicine, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
2004 - 2008 University of California Los Angeles, B.S.        
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, magna cum laude with Honor’s Thesis 

Selected Awards

2017 Science News: Top 10 Scientists to Watch
2015 - 2018 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship
2014 - 2015 EMBO LT Fellowship
2014 DTI-IMPORT Fellowship
2008 - 2013 Gabilan Fellow, Stanford Graduate Fellowship
2008 - 2013 National Science Foundation Fellowship
2006 - 2008 Maximizing Access to Research Careers Fellowship (NIH)

Third-party
funding

2020 - 2025 European Research Council (ERC)
ERC Starting Grant (ERC-StG-2019 MITOvTOXO)
2020 - 2024 German Research Foundation (DFG)
Research Training Grant RTG2550 "Dynamic Regulation of Cellular Protein Localization" Member
2019 - 2022 Chinese Research Council (CRC)
Graduate Fellowship
2016 - 2020  German Research Council
Collaborative Research Center 1218: Mitochondrial Regulation of Cellular Function
2015 - 2018 Life Science Research Foundation (LSRF)
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow
2014  European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Long-term Postdoctoral Fellowship
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