Prof. Dr. Susann Schweiger
Research Group Leader LIR, Director of Institute for Human Genetics University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Professor for Human Genetics
1970
Research Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany Professor for Human Genetics, Director of Institute for Human Genetics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Board certification Human Genetics, Ärztekammer Berlin, Germany
Residency training Human Genetics, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany
Registrar: Department of Dermatology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany, Full registration, Ärztekammer Hamburg, Germany
Registrar: Department of Pharmacology, University Hospital FU Berlin, Germany
Registrar: Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg, Germany
Provisional registration, Ärztekammer Hamburg, Germany
Dr. med. (M.D.); Innsbruck Medical School, Austria 10/1993; Graduation; Innsbruck Medical School, Austria
Undergraduate Training; Innsbruck Medical School, Austria
Dr. med. (M.D.); Innsbruck Medical School, Austria 10/1993; Graduation; Innsbruck Medical School, Austria
Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany
Research Group Leader at the German Resilience Center (DRZ) Mainz, Germany
Professor for Human Genetics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Director Institute for Human Genetics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Professor for Molecular Medicine, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Academic Lead of the Department for Human Genetics
Deputy Head of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Medicine
Head of the Centre for Oncology and Molecular Medicine
Lichtenberg Professor for Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany
M.D.-Ph.D. thesis: Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freiburg, Germany; “Purification, characterization and crystallization of the membrane protein Maltoporin, the membrane-associated proteins Adrenodoxin Reduktase, and the tissue-plasminogene activator tPA” (supervisor: Georg E. Schulz, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Lichtenberg professorship of the “Volkswagenstiftung”
Research grant of the Max Planck Society
Member of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”
Frau Professorin Dr. Susann Schweiger ist seit 2012 Professorin für Humangenetik und Leiterin des Instituts für Humangenetik an der Universitätsmedizin Mainz und seit 2020 Arbeitsgruppenleiterin am Leibniz-Institut für Resilienzforschung. Zusätzlich ist sie in Nebentätigkeit als Fachärztin für Humangenetik im MVZ der Universitätsmedizin Mainz angestellt. Sie hat seit 2018 keine persönlichen Honorare für Beratertätigkeiten, Fortbildungsveranstaltungen, Vorträge oder Stellungnahmen von pharmazeutischen Unternehmen oder Medizinprodukteherstellern erhalten. Frau Professorin Schweiger erhielt von der Patientenvereinigung CDKL5 zur Analyse von CDKL5 K0-Tieren Forschungsmittel für das Jahr 2020.
Weiß M, Selig M, Friedrich J, Wierczeiko A, Diederich S, Sigel H, Bredow J, Eichler FS, Nagy A, Seyler D, Holthöfer L, Gerber S, Schweiger S, Linke M, Bley A (2025) Deep intronic SVA_E retrotransposition as a novel factor in Canavan disease pathogenesis. Hum Gene Ther. doi:10.1089/hum.2025.006. Online ahead of print.
>> Link zum ArtikelButto T, Chongtham MC, Mungikar K, Hartwich D, Linke M, Ruffini N, Radyushkin K, Schweiger S, Winter J, Gerber S (2024) Characterization of transcriptional profiles associated with stress-induced neuronal activation in Arc-GFP mice. Mol Psychiatry. 29(19):3010-3023. doi: 10.1038/s41380-024-02555-z. PMID: 38649752.
>> Link zu PubmedFrank S, Gabessi E, Käseberg S, Bertin M, Zografidou L, Pfeiffer D, Brennenstuhl H, Falk S, Karow M, Schweiger S (2024) Absence of the RING domain in MID1 results in patterning defects in the developing human brain. LSA. doi: 10.26508/lsa.202302288
>> Link zu PubmedHewel C, Schmidt H, Runkel S, Kohnen W, Schweiger S, Michel A, Bikar SE, Plachter B, Hankeln T, Linke M, Gerber S (2024) Nanopore adaptive sampling of a metagenomic sample derived from a human monkeypox case. J Med Virol. doi: 10.1002/jmv.29610
>> Link zu PubmedKrummeich J, Nardi L, Caliendo C, Aschauer D, Engelhardt V, Arlt A, Maier J, Blicker F, Kwiatkowski MD, Rolski K, Vincze K, Schneider R, Rumpel S, Gerber S, Schmeisser MJ, Schweiger S (2024) Premature cognitive decline in a mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Aging Cell. 23(12):e14318. doi:10.1111/acel.14318
>> Link zu PubmedStroh A, Schweiger S, Ramirez JM, Tüscher O (2024) The selfish network: how the brain preserves behavioral function through shifts in neuronal network state. Trends Neurosci. 47(4):246-258. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2024.02.005
>> Link zu PubmedKäseberg S, Bertin M, Menon R, Gabassi E, Todorov H, Frank S, Brennenstuhl H, Lohrer B, Winter J, Krummeich J, Winkler J, Winner B, Weis E, Hartwich D, Diederich S, Luck K, Gerber S, Lunt P, Berninger B, Falk S, Schweiger S, Karow M (2023) Dynamic X-chromosomal reactivation enhances female brain resilience. biorXiv. 2023. doi: 10.1101/2023.06.17.545424
>> Link zum ArtikelKäseberg S, Bertin M, Menon R, Gabassi E, Todorov H, Frank S, Brennenstuhl H, Lohrer B, Winter J, Krummeich J, Winkler J, Winner B, Weis E, Hartwich D, Diederich S, Luck K, Gerber S, Lunt P, Berninger B, Falk S, Schweiger S, Karow M (2023) Dynamic X-chromosomal reactivation enhances female brain resilience. biorXiv. 2023. doi: 10.1101/2023.06.17.545424
Rücklé C, Körtel N, Basilicata MF, Busch A, Zhou Y, Hoch-Kraft P, Tretow K, Kielisch F, Bertin M, Pradhan M, Musheev M, Schweiger S, Niehrs C, Rausch O, Zarnack K, Keller Valsecchi CI, König J (2023) RNA stability controlled by m6A methylation contributes to X-to-autosome dosage compensation in mammals. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 30(8):1207-1215. doi: 10.1038/s41594-023-00997-7
>> Link zu PubmedVennin C, Hewel C, Todorov H, Wendelmuth M, Radyushkin K, Heimbach A, Horenko I, Ayash S, Müller MB, Schweiger S, Gerber S, Lutz B (2022) A resilience-related glial-neurovascular network is transcriptionally activated after chronic social defeat in male mice. Cells. 11(21):3405. doi: 10.3390/cells11213405
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