Curriculum vitae
| since 2014 | Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin |
| 2010-2013 | Institut Curie, Paris, France Postdoc with Prof. Edith Heard, funded by HFSP long-term fellowship |
| 2005-2009 | Humboldt Universität und Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum, Berlin Ph.D. with Prof. Thomas Höfer and Prof. Andreas Radbruch |
| 1999-2005 | Universität Tübingen Diplom-Biochemistry |
Fellowships and Awards
| 2018 | HFSP Career Development Award |
| 2010-2014 | Human Frontiers Science Programme (HFSP) Long-Term Fellowship |
| 2011 | Young Female Scientist Award for PhD thesis (awarded by the Forschungsverbund Berlin) |
| 2010 | Avrion Mitchison Price for Rheumatology |
| 2010 | MTZ-Award for Medical Systems Biology for PhD thesis |
Selected Publications
- Mutzel V, Okamoto I, Dunkel I, Saitou M, Giorgetti L, Heard E and Schulz EG
Two coupled feedback loops explain random mono-allelic Xist upregulation at the onset of X-chromosome inactivation.
BioRvix, 2017, Doi:10.1101/204909 - Schulz EG
X-chromosome dosage as a modulator of pluripotency, signalling and differentiation?
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017, 372.1733, 20160366. - Schulz EG, Meisig J, Nakamura T, Okamoto I, Sieber A, Picard C, Borensztein M, Saitou M, Blüthgen N and Heard E
The two active X chromosomes in female embryonic stem cells block exit from the pluripotent state by inhibiting the MAPK signaling pathway,
Cell Stem Cell, 2014, 14:203-216
- Schulz EG and Heard E
Role and control of X chromosome dosage during mammalian development,
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 2013, 23:1-7 - Nora EP, Lajoie BR*, Schulz EG*, Giorgetti L*, Okamoto I, Servant N, Piolot T, van Berkum NL, Meisig J, Sedat J, Gribnau J, Barillot E, Blüthgen N, Dekker J# and Heard E#
Spatial partitioning of the regulatory landscape of the X-inactivation centre,
Nature, 2012, 485(7398):381-5
* # equal contribution - Mariani L, Schulz EG, Lexberg M, Helmstetter C, Radbruch A, Löhning M and Höfer T
Short-term memory in gene induction reveals the regulatory principle behind stochastic IL-4 expression,
Molecular Systems Biology, 2010, 6(359) - Schulz EG, Mariani L, Radbruch A and Höfer T
Sequential polarization and imprinting of type 1 T-helper lymphocytes by interferon-g and interleukin-12,
IMMUNITY, 2009, 30 (5), 673-683
["Research Highlight" in Nature Reviews Immunology]