Schuele Lab

Dr. Schuele’s team at The Parkinson's Institute is developing a new model of  “Parkinson’s disease in a petri-dish”. CIRM is supporting this novel research with several grants. The collaborators on this initiative are scientists from academia and industry.

Her team has created patient-derived stem cell lines and differentiated them into dopamine neurons. The goal is to utilize this new model to exploit disease mechanisms of PD, discover environmental toxins, and for innovative drug screening.

• Dr. Schuele earned her M.D. in 2001 from the Medical University Lübeck, Germany and received her doctoral degree (Dr. med.) in Molecular Neurophysiology from the Georg-August University, Göttingen Germany.
• During her neurological internship at the Medical University Lübeck, she worked with Dr. Christine Klein on genetic forms of parkinsonism.
• Dr. Schuele served as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Uta Francke, Genetics Department, Stanford University from 2003-2005.
• She received her board-certification in 2005 from the American Board of Medical Genetics as a Clinical Molecular Geneticist.
• She joined The Parkinson's Institute in October 2005.

MS in Neurogenetics, University of Würzburg, Germany
PhD in Cell Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany

BS in Chemistry, Calcutta University
MS in Biochemistry, Calcutta University
MS in Molecular Biology, CSU East Bay
PhD in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz

BS in Biochemistry & Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego
MS in Biotechnology, San Jose State University

BS in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences, California State University, Hayward
MS in Biological Sciences, San Jose State University
BA in Child Development, California State University, Sacramento
MA in Early Childhood Education, San Francisco State University

BS Biology: Concentration in Systems Physiology, Minor: chemistry, San Jose State University

BS in Management Science, University of California, San Diego