Simone Schopper

Simone earned her MSc in Microbiology and Genetics from the University of Vienna, Austria, followed by a technical project assistant position with Prof. Steffen Hering at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in Vienna. A Leonardo da Vinci mobility scholarship opened the possibility to further investigate eukaryotic protein networks and interactions, in MAPK and calcium signaling, at Lund University, Sweden, which extended into a PhD program with Prof. Susanne Widell and others. The strong interest to exploit systems approaches led to subsequent visiting appointments with Prof. Ruedi Aebersold, ETH Zurich, and Prof. Martha Cyert, Stanford University (in collaboration with Prof. Jan Skotheim).
Simone joined the group of Prof. Paola Picotti in June 2014 and will during her postdoc investigate the causes of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases using enzymatic methods and targeted proteomics.