Dr. Bettina Schmid

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Bettina Schmid studied Biology in Hohenheim, Corvallis (Oregon, USA), and Tübingen where she graduated in 1996. During her diploma work she collected the first experiences with zebrafish in the lab of Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard.  She then moved to the University of Pennsylvania (USA) (Prof. Mullins) for her PhD and graduated in 1999. After a Postdoc at Harvard Medical School (USA) with Prof. Len Zon she returned for two more years back to the Max-Planck Institute of Developmental Biology (Prof. Nicolson) in Tübingen. From 2003 until 2009 she was as a junior group leader at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversität in the Department of Prof. Christian Haass. She established a Zebrafish faclity and a research group focussing on neurodegenerative diseases in Zebrafish. She has been the leader of the Zebrafish Core Facility of the DZNE since November 2009.