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Melina Schuh (born April 14, 1980 in Bad Pyrmont ) is a German biochemist . She is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen .

Life

Melina Schuh studied biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth until 2004 and received her doctorate in 2008 from the University of Heidelberg . From 2004 to 2008 she worked in Jan Ellenberg's research group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , then until 2015 in Cambridge at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Since 2016 she has been director of the meiosis department at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In 2019 Melina Schuh was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Genetics / Molecular Biology and Cell Biology section .

Prizes and awards

  • 2002–2004 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
  • 2004–2008 EMBL PhD scholarship
  • 2005–2008 doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
  • 2014 Early Career Award from the Biochemical Society
  • 2014 Lister Institute Research Prize
  • 2015 John Kendrew Award
  • 2016 Binder Innovation Prize of the DGZ
  • 2018 EMBO Gold Medal
  • 2019 Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society
  • 2019 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG

Literature (selection)

  • An actin-dependent mechanism for long-range vesicle transport. Nature Cell Biology 13 (12), pp. 1431-1436 (2011)
  • Goodbye homunculus. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 13 (12), pp. 410-410 (2012)
  • First comes the egg. Journal of Cell Biology 204 (7), pp. 1080-1081 (2014)

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personal data
SURNAME Schuh, Melina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont