Erin Schuman#
| Membership Number: | 4541 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.brain.mpg.de/schuman |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - 2016 Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
- 2009 - present Director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2004 - 2010 Professor, California Institute of Technology, Biology
- 2004 - 2009 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 2002 - 2004 Associate Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 2000 - 2006 Executive Officer in Biology, California Institute of Technology
- 1999 - 2004 Associate Professor, Biology, California Institute of Technology
- 1997 - 2002 Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1993 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Biology, California Institute of Technology
Fields of Scholarship
- Synaptic transmission and plasticity
- Protein synthesis and degradation
- Local transcriptomes and proteomes: cell biological control of synapses
- Local mRNAs and protein translation at synapses
- Local control of synaptic function and plasticity by regulation of protein synthesis
- Local Control in Molecular Brain Circuits
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Elected Member German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- 2017 - 2021 ERC Advanced Investigator Award
- 2014 Elected EMBO member
- 2013 Alexander Cruickshank Lecture, Gordon Research Conference
- 2012 - 2016 ERC Advanced Investigator Award
- 2011 Recipient of The Hodgkin-Huxley-Katz Prize Lecture for 2013
- 2005 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- 2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Associate Investigator
- 1997 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Assistant Investigator
- 1996 Ferguson Biology Undergraduate Teaching Prize
- 1996 - 1998 Beckman Young Investigator Award
- 1995 Ferguson Biology Graduate Teaching Prize
- 1995 American Association of University Women Emerging Scholar
- 1995 - 1999 Pew Biomedical Scholar
- 1994 - 1998 John Merck Scholar
- 1994 - 1996 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
- McKnight Scholars Award (declined (1994-1996)
- 1991 Katherine McCormick Foundation Fellow
