Prof. Dr. Robert Schneider

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Education

• 1990-1996 Study of Biology (Diploma), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Advanced Professional Degrees

• 1996 Doctoral Degree, LMU, Munich, Advisor: Prof. Regine Kahmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munchen

Positions Held

• since 2016 Director of Institute of Functional Epigentics, Helmholtz Zentrum München
• since 2016 Professor, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
• 2012-2016 Director de Recherche, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France
• 2005-2012 Max Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Immunobiolgy and Epigenetics, Freiburg
• 2000-2004 Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. T. Kouzarides, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Honours and Awards

• 2014 Equipe Labellisée "La Ligue Contre le Cancer"
• 2012 Member of Laboratory of Excellence (LABEX) consortium Strasbourg
• 2012 Equipe Labellisée "Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale” (FRM)
• 2012 Chaire Gutenberg, University of Strasbourg
• 2011 Associated Member, Epigensys Network of Excellence
• 2008 ERC Starting Grant awarded
• 2006 Epigenome Network of Excellence Elected Member (NET)
• 2006 HFSP Career Development Award (CDA)
• 2001 HFSP fellowship
• 2000 EMBO fellowship

Editorial Activities

• since 2014 Academic Editor, Public Library of Sciences (PLOS), PLOS Genetics

Other Professional Activities

• since 2015 Member of the Young Investigator (ATIP/Avenir) Selection Committee

• 2013 Member of Steering Committee of IGBMC International PhD program

• 2012 Founder of the Nuclear Dynamics and Signalling program, IGBMC

• 2006-2012 Founding Member and Member of the Steering Committee of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-MCB) Freiburg

• 2002-2004 Member of the Faculty of Biology, University of Cambridge

Selected publications 2017-2020

Ignatova VV, Kaiser S, Sook Yuin S, Bing X, Stolz P, et al., Bultmann S, Rando OJ, Guccione E, Kellner SM, Schneider R (2020b). METTL6 is a tRNA m3C methyltransferase that regulates pluripotency and tumor cell growth. Science Advances 6, eaaz4551

Bheda P, Aguilar-Gómez D, Becker NB, Becker J, Stravrou E, Kukhtevich IV, Höfer T, Maerkl S, Charvin G, Marr C, Kirmizis A, Schneider R (2020) Single-cell tracing dissects regulation of maintenance and inheritance of transcriptional reinduction memory. Mol Cell. 78, 915-925.

Bartke T, Schneider R (2020) You are what you eat - how nutrition and metabolism shape the genome through epigenetics. Molecular Metabolism 38:100987

Ignatova VV, Stolz P, Kaiser S, Gustafsson TH, Rico Lastres P, Sanz-Moreno A, Cho YL, Amari V, et al., Bultmann S. and Schneider R (2020a) The rRNA m6A methyltransferase METTL5 regulates pluripotency and developmental programmes. Genes & Dev, 34, 715-729.
Bheda P, Kirmizis A, Schneider R. (2020) The past determines the future: sugar source history and transcriptional memory. Current Genetics Jul 19. doi: 10.1007/s00294-020-01094-8

Nieborak A, Schneider R (2018) Metabolic intermediates – cellular messengers talking to chromatin modifiers. Molecular Metabolism, 17, 30937-7.

Kebede AF, Nieborak A, Zorro Shahidian L, Le Gras S, Richter F, Aguilar Gomez D, Baltissen MP, Meszaros G, Magliarelli H, Widmann D, Margueron R, Colomé-Tatché M, Ricci R, Daujat S, Vermeulen M, Mittler G, Schneider R (2017). Histone propionylation is a novel mark of active chromatin. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 12, 1048-1056.