CV Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu
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Short CV
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Since July 2017: SNSF Assistant Professor
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2013-2017: SNSF Ambizione Junior Group Leader. Ciliopathy project hosted in the laboratory of Prof Stephan Neuhauss, Zurich, Switzerland.
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2011-2012: Acting Assistant Professor and attending physician in Medical Genetics, Seattle Children’s Hospital / University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, Seattle, USA.
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2008 - 2011: Residency and Research Fellowship Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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2004 - 2007: Residency and Fellowship Pediatrics, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.
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2001- 2003: Postdoctoral Research, lab of Dr Cecilia Moens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
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1998 – 2001: Residency Pediatrics, Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland.
Degrees
- 2012: FMH Medical Genetics (Swiss Board Certification)
- 2011: American Board of Medical Genetics
- 2007: FMH Pediatrics (Swiss Board Certification)
- 2001: Medical doctoral Thesis, University of Geneva School of Medicine: Diagnostic prénatal des cardiopathies congénitales par échocardiographie fœtale et leur suivi postnatal à Genève
- 1998: M.D., University of Geneva School of Medicine
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Publications
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Tackling ciliary specialization to understand phenotypic variability in human primary ciliopathies Journal of Cell Science, 138, jcs264177. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.264177
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CEP290-deficiency disrupts ciliary axonemal architecture in human iPSC-derived brain organoids Journal of Cell Science, 138, jcs264092. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.264092
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PTBP1 variants displaying altered nucleocytoplasmic distribution are responsible for a neurodevelopmental disorder with skeletal dysplasia Journal of Clinical Investigation, 135, e182100. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci182100
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated generation of two isogenic CEP290-mutated iPSC lines Stem Cell Research, 87, 103781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scr.2025.103781
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Precise, predictable genome integrations by deep-learning-assisted design of microhomology-based templates Nature Biotechnology, online. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02771-0
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Differences in neuronal ciliation rate and ciliary content revealed by systematic imaging-based analysis of hiPSC-derived models across protocols Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 13, 1516596. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2025.1516596
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The primary cilium gene CPLANE1 is required for peripheral nervous system development Developmental Biology, 519, 106–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2024.12.008
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Loss‐of‐Function Variants in CUL3 Cause a Syndromic Neurodevelopmental Disorder Annals of Neurology, 97, 76–89. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27077
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Shared and unique consequences of Joubert Syndrome gene dysfunction on the zebrafish central nervous system Biology Open, 13, bio060421. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.060421
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Astrogliosis and neuroinflammation underlie scoliosis upon cilia dysfunction ELife, 13, RP96831. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.96831
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Nanopore Deep Sequencing as a Tool to Characterize and Quantify Aberrant Splicing Caused by Variants in Inherited Retinal Dystrophy Genes International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25, 9569. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25179569
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Limited Added Diagnostic Value of Whole Genome Sequencing in Genetic Testing of Inherited Retinal Diseases in a Swiss Patient Cohort International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25, 6540. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25126540
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Monogenic Disease Variants in the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort and Stone-Free Controls: TH-PO460 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), 34, 218–218. https://doi.org/10.1681/asn.20233411s1218a
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Challenges for the implementation of next generation sequencing-based expanded carrier screening: Lessons learned from the ciliopathies European Journal of Human Genetics, 31, 953–961. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-022-01267-8
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Pathogenic SCN2A variants cause early-stage dysfunction in patient-derived neurons Human Molecular Genetics, 32, 2192–2204. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddad048
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Loss-of-function variants in CUL3 cause a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder (No. 23290941; MedRxiv). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.13.23290941
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Deleterious, protein-altering variants in the transcriptional coregulator ZMYM3 in 27 individuals with a neurodevelopmental delay phenotype American Journal of Human Genetics, 110, 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2022.12.007
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Control of protein and lipid composition of photoreceptor outer segments—Implications for retinal disease In C. Iomini & Y. Sun (Eds.), Cilia Signaling in Development and Disease (No. 155; pp. 165–225). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2023.09.001
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Studying the morphology, composition and function of the photoreceptor primary cilium in zebrafish Methods in Cell Biology, 175, 97–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2022.10.004
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Loss of the Bardet-Biedl protein Bbs1 alters photoreceptor outer segment protein and lipid composition Nature Communications, 13, 1282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28982-6