Nina Schiller

Thunberg Fellow, SCAS.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Molecular Tools, Uppsala University

Nina Schiller is a Thunberg Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, working in the lab of
Prof. Ulf Landegren at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, at Uppsala University. Her
research focuses on developing molecular tools for sensitive detection assays to measure the health status
of individuals via biomarkers in the context of personal medicine.

She received her Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Gunnar von Heijne at Stockholm University, where
she investigated the biology of membrane proteins. She developed a technique for studying the dynamics of
cotranslational membrane protein insertion into pro- and eukaryotic membranes. This methodology has a wide
range of applications in research on cotranslational events of nascent peptide chains.

Later she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship in the group of Prof. Dr. Ulrich
Hartl at the Max-Planck Institute in Munich. Her research focused on understanding fundamental principles
underlying the cotranslational protein folding, in the context of the ribosome and chaperone network machinery.
She thereafter worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Karolinska Institute, where she studied cotranslational
protein folding of spider silk proteins.

Nina Schiller’s publications include articles in eLife, Nat. Struc. and Mol. Bio., Biochemistry, Journal of Bio.
Chem. and Nature Comm. .

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2020-21.