Dr. Michael Sieweke Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), France

Michael Sieweke directs the group of stem cell and macrophage biology at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in Marseille, France and is INSERM-Helmholtz group leader of the Max-Delbruck Center in Berlin, Germany. He received his undergraduate training in Biochemistry at the University of Tubingen, Germany and his Ph.D from... read morethe University of California, Berkeley (USA). After postdoctoral training and a junior faculty position at the EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, he was recruited at the Associate Professor level by the French national research agency CNRS and promoted to Full Professor in 2009. He has been interested in differentiation and growth control throughout his career, with a focus on transcription factors in hematopoietic cells and macrophages.