Heather Etchevers, Ph. D.

•  Sep 2010 
  Nevus Outreach, Inc. research grants View website
•  Sep 2008 
  Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale: Role of the FGF10-FGFR2b pathway in cardiac morphogenesis View website
•  Sep 2006 
  Programme National de Recherche en Dermatologie: Physiopathology of giant congenital melanocytic nae View website
•  Sep 2004 
  Association Française contre les Myopathies: Transcriptome and differentiation analysis of multipote View website
•  Mar 2003 
  “Avenir” program, INSERM (150K euros consumables, 126K euros salaries) View website
•  Sep 2001 
  Sturge-Weber Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow View website
•  Aug 2001 
  Travel award from the Société Française de la Biologie du Développement to attend the 14th Internati View website
•  Dec 1993 
  Predoctoral Fellow in the Biological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute View website

For the general public: I can be reached by putting in (my names) first.last@inserm.fr

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1992- Member, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa honors societies (USA)
1993-2003 Member, Society for Neuroscience (USA)
1995- Member, Société Française de la Biologie du Développement (France)
1999- Senior scientific advisor, Naevus 2000 France-Europe
2006-2010 Member, International Society for Stem Cell Research
2007- Scientific advisor, Nevus Outreach, Inc.
2010 Strategic planning committee, Nevus Outreach, Inc.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
2011 Co-organizer, International Expert Meeting on Large Congenital Melanocytic Nevi and Neurocutaneous Melanocytosis, Tübingen, Germany
2010-2011 Member, national committee for the International Pigment Cell Conference 2011
2009 Moderator of national conference on congenital giant nevus, Vichy
2008 Selection committee, “Journées scientifiques” of the IFR30 and IFR31, Toulouse
2005-2008 Selection committee, Congrès Jeunes Chercheurs (Université Paris Descartes)
2005 Co-organizer of national conference on congenital giant nevus, Marne-la-Vallée
2002 Organizer and moderator of symposium on congenital giant nevus, satellite to the International Pigment Cell Conference, Egmond-aan-See, Holland

COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES AND PEER REVIEW
2010 Grant Reviewer, Association Française contre les Myopathies
2008- Reviewer, Human Molecular Genetics, Human Genetics, Anatomical Record, Journal of Visualized Experiments and Human Reproduction journals
2008 Invited scientific advisory committee representative for Naevus 2000 France-Europe by Drug Information Association Euromeeting, Barcelona,
2-5 March 2008
2006-2008 Grant Reviewer, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), National Science Foundation (Georgia), Rappaport Institute (Israel)
2005 Report for the scientific directions workgroup "Stem cells and therapy" of the future IMAGINE Institute of Genetic Disease, Paris, France
2004-2009 Radiation safety officer, INSERM U781. Designed training presentation available at http://www.slideshare.net/Alethea/comment-travailler-en-scuritavec-de-la-radioactivit (3729 views; used beyond our research unit.)

M.D. thesis committees: A. Vigouroux (2008), L. Benouaiche (2009), M. Chaabouni (2009)

Ph.D. thesis committees: C. Bonnart (2007); C. Golzio (as co-director, 2009); S. Mercier (2012)

OTHER TRAINING
Animal experimentation, level I. Training at CNRS center Joseph Aiguier, Marseille, from 21 June to 2 July 2011.
Radiation safety officer training for qualification as “personne compétente en radioprotection”, Hôpital Pitié-La Salpêtrière, Paris, December 2003.
Course in Scientific Management for the. Beginning Academic Investigator by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, Bethesda, MD (USA), July, 2002.
Summer student program at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine (USA), June-Aug,1990.