Schuman Department

Erin Schuman’s long-standing research interest is the study of cellular mechanisms and neural circuits that underlie information processing and storage and animal behavior. Memories are stored within and between the cells that make neural circuits. Although memories can last a lifetime, the substrates for memory are relatively unstable, proteins. The Schuman lab studies the properties of mRNAs and proteins (e.g. the transcriptomes and proteomes) distributed throughout the neuron, with a focus on how local cell biological processes, like protein synthesis, can function to allow synapses to respond rapidly and relatively specifically to bring about changes. To study protein synthesis, Schuman and colleagues have worked for many years on biorthogonal labelling approaches using non-canonical amino acids and click chemistry to visualize, purify and identify newly synthesized proteins. We conduct many of our studies in the rat hippocampus, a structure known to be important for memory in both humans and animals. We have also used zebrafish as a system to study memory at the molecular, cellular and behavorial levels.
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Upcoming Lectures and Events
22 April 2021
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mpibr External Postdoctoral Seminar Concatenations by Chris Rodgers (Columbia University, New York)Title: Sensorimotor strategies and neuronal representations for shape recognition in mice [more] |
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27 April 2021
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Connecting Brains Lecture by Susana Lima (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)Title: Neural circuits controlling sexual behavior [more] |
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28 April 2021
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Neuroscience Lecture by Emily Osterweil (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences University of Edinburgh)Title: The long and short of altered translation in Fragile X [more] |
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12 May 2021
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Neuroscience Online Lecture by Maria Robles (Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)Title: t.b.a. [more] |
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18 May 2021
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Connecting Brains Lecture by Jee Hyun Kim (School of Medicine, IMPACT, the Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia)Title: A cross-species approach to understand adolescent vulnerability to mental disorder... [more] |
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