Erin Schuman

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Erin Margaret Schuman (born May 15, 1963 in San Gabriel , California ) is an American psychologist and neurobiologist . She is director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main .

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Schuman acquired in 1985 at the University of Southern California a Bachelor in Psychology and in 1990 Joseph Farley and Gregory A. Clark at the Princeton University a Ph.D. in neuroscience . As a postdoctoral fellow , she worked with Daniel V. Madison at Stanford University before becoming a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1993 . From 1997 to 2009 she also conducted research for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Schuman has been at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research since 2009, and since 2015 she has also been a professor of biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Schuman and co-workers deal with questions of neural plasticity , the transcriptome and the proteome of synapses , the proteostasis of synapses, and the storage of information by synapses and neural circuits . They demonstrated that in dendrites , a protein synthesis takes place. She uses rats and zebrafish as model organisms .

According to Google Scholar , Schuman has an h-index of 74, according to the Scopus database it has an h-index of 64 (as of March 2020). She has been a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) since 2014 and a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina as well as the Academia Europaea since 2017, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2020 . Also in 2020 she was awarded the Louis Jeantet Prize together with Graziella Pellegrini and Michele De Luca .

Schuman is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erin M. Schuman. In: hhmi.org. Howard Hughes Medical Institute , accessed March 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Erin Schuman. In: scholar.google.com. Google Scholar, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Schuman, Erin Margaret. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed March 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Find people in the EMBO Communities. In: embo.org. European Molecular Biology Organization , accessed March 11, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Erin Schuman. In: leopoldina.org. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Erin Schuman. In: ae-info.org. Academia Europaea , accessed March 11, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Erin Schuman. In: jeantet.ch. Louis Jeantet Foundation , January 20, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schuman, Erin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuman, Erin M .; Schuman, Erin Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American neurobiologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH San Gabriel , California