Prof. Dr. Susanne Schoch McGovern

University Professor, Vice Chair

1988-1990	Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Prediploma (11/90)
1990-1994	Chemistry, University of Cologne, Diploma (04/94)
1997	PhD (11/97), Genetics, University of Cologne, Doctoral thesis advisor: Prof. G. Thiel

1997 – 2002	Post-doctoral fellow, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA, 2002, Prof. T.C. Südhof
2003 – 2009	Head of an independent research group at the Institute of Neuropathology, University of Bonn
2003 – 2008	Emmy Noether independent research group
Since 2009	Head of an independent research group funded by the BMBF
Since 2009	W2 professorship at the University of Bonn, Medical School

Alvarez-Baron E, Michel K, Mittelstaedt T, Opitz T, Schmitz F, Beck H, Dietrich D, Becker AJ, Schoch S RIM3? and RIM4? regulate neuronal arborization. J. Neurosci. (in press)
Pitsch J, Opitz T, Woitecki A, Borm V, Staniek M, Beck H, Becker AJ, Schoch S (2012) The presynaptic active zone protein RIM1alpha controls epileptogenesis following status epilepticus. J. Neurosci. 32:12384-12395.
Schoch S*, Mittelstaedt T, Kaeser PS, Padgett D, Feldmann N, Chevaleyre V, Castillo PE, Hammer RE, Han W, Schmitz F, Lin W, Südhof TC*. (2006) Redundant functions of RIM1? and RIM2? in Ca2+-triggered neurotransmitter release. EMBO J, 25(24): 5852-5863. *:Corresponding author
Schoch S, Castillo PE, Jo T, Mukherjee K, Geppert M, Wang Y, Schmitz F, Malenka RC, Südhof TC. (2002) RIM1alpha forms a protein scaffold for regulating neurotransmitter release at the active zone. Nature, 415: 321-326.
Schoch S, Deak F, Königstorfer A, Mozhayeva M, Sara Y, Südhof TC, Kavalali ET. (2001) SNARE function analyzed in synaptobrevin/VAMP knockout mice. Science. 294: 1117-1122.

Institute of Neuropathology
University of Bonn, Medical School
Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn/Germany

Phone: +49-228 287 19109; +49-228 287 19362

Email: Susanne.Schoch@uni-bonn.de

Website: http://www.meb.uni-bonn.de/neuropath/index.php?page=agschoch