Dr. Maria Robles

Biography

Maria Robles studied Biology at the University of Leon in Spain before moving to Madrid to pursue her doctorate at Universidad Autónoma, where she investigated apoptotic mechanisms of the immune system. She worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Charles Weitz at Harvard Medical School, establishing in vivo systems to identify circadian core clock components using interaction proteomics. She later joined the laboratory of Matthias Mann at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry with a Marie Curie Grant, pioneering the application of quantitative proteomics in the circadian field. Her work included the description of endogenous daily rhythms in proteome phosphorylation in total mouse livers and isolated mitochondria. In 2017, Maria became a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at LMU Munich, where she studies circadian clock and sleep mechanisms at molecular system levels using mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics. She received the Junior Faculty Research Award from the International Society for Research on Biological Rhythms in 2020, was selected as an EMBO Young Investigator in 2021, and in 2023, she became a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Investigator, receiving the Neuroscience Collaborative Pairs Pilot Award.

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