From rags to riches — The history of the endoplasmic reticulum

Dr. Maya Schuldiner was born in Israel. She completed two years of military service in 1996, and graduated magna cum laude with a BSc in Biology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1998. She went on to complete both her MSc and a PhD in genetics, also at the Hebrew University, in 1999 and 2003. She conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California in San Francisco from 2003 until 2008, when she joined the faculty of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Dr. Blanche Schwappach was born in Germany and graduated with a diploma in biology (biophysics/biochemistry) from the University of Konstanz in 1992. She went on to complete her PhD at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology in Hamburg in 1996. She conducted postdoctoral research in the Departments of Biochemistry and Physiology at the University of California in San Francisco from 1996 to 2000. Next, she joined first the Center for Molecular Biology in Heidelberg and then the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester as a principal investigator. In 2010 she took up a Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Göttingen Medical Center.