Dr. Christian Schlieker

Biography

Christian Schlieker is an expert in cellular etiology of movement disorders, focusing on nuclear compartmentalization and biomolecular condensates. He studied biology at the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he earned his PhD in the laboratory of Bernd Bukau at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg. Schlieker utilized biochemical and biophysical approaches to uncover how Clp/HSP100 AAA+ ATPases counteract proteotoxic protein accumulation. Following this, he continued his training as an EMBO postdoctoral fellow with Hidde Ploegh at Harvard Medical School and the Whitehead Institute at MIT, where he explored the ubiquitin-proteasome system and discovered a novel role for ubiquitin-like modifiers in RNA biology. Schlieker joined the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in 2009 and is currently a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Cell Biology. His accolades include the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and he has served on various scientific advisory boards and review panels for organizations including the NIH, Department of Defense, and Yale.

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