Robert Schneider - Curriculum Vitae#
Director of Institute of Functional Epigenetics (IFE), Helmholtz Zentrum München
Professor at Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
RESEARCH TOPICS:
Molecular basis of epigenetic mechanism and epigenetic reprogramming. Histone modifications and variants. Epigenetic memory.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I have a longstanding interest in epigenetics, with a strong expertise in chromatin function. As PI at the Max Planck Institute Freiburg (Germany), IGBMC Strasbourg (France) and now at HMGU in Munich, I was able to demonstrate the functional role of histone modifications in transcription. Currently, we focus on environment-genome interactions, metabolic signaling to chromatin as well as mechanisms of transcriptional memory and epigenetic reprogramming.
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND POSITIONS
- 2012 - 2016 Director de Recherche, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France
- 2005 - 2011 Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
- 2000 - 2004 Postdoctoral fellow, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2000 PhD, LMU Munich
EDITOR
PLoS Genetics, since 2013
COMMITTEEs and BOARDS
- Since 2019 Speaker, International Research School "Epicrossborders" (joint with Edinburgh)
- Since 2018 Norway Research Council (RCN), review board
- Since 2017 Research Coordination Board German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)
- Since 2016 Member Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich
- Since 2016 Founder + steering committee of epigenetics@HMGU
- 2014 - 2016 ATIP/Avenir selection committee
- 2012 - 2015 Steering Committee, Nuclear Dynamics program (IGBMC)
- 2006 - 2011 IMPRS PhD program steering committee (Freiburg)
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
- 2023 GRC DNA and Histone Modifications
- 2022 FASEB Biological Methylation
- 2021 Chromatin and Epigenetics: From Mechanism to Execution, >1000 participants (virtual)
- 2021 Helmholtz Diabetes Meeting, Genetics and Epigenetics of Diabetes, 300 participants (virtual)
- 2018 Epigene2sys meeting, 200 participants
- 2017 + 19 Chromatin and Epigenetics, Munich: from Mechanisms to Function 200 participants
- since 2016 Founder + Organizer of Munich Epigenetics Spotlight series, 1-2 meetings per year, 1 day
- 2012 + 15 Chromatin - from Structure to Epigenetics, Strasbourg, 140 participants
- 2010 1. Max Planck Epigenetics Meeting, Freiburg
- 2005 -15 Organisation + founder of ‘Tri-Rhena Chromatin Club’ (Freiburg, Basel, Strasbourg)
PRESENTATIONS
Total of >150 international meeting + seminar invitations since 2005.
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