Team
Pichler Lab
Group leader Andrea Pichler
PD Dr. Andrea Pichler graduated in Molecular biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1998, followed by a doctorate on “Regulation of bcl-2” at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Novartis Forschungsinstitut, Vienna.
After a short postdoc at the Novartis Research Institute, she moved to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, in 2000, where she started her work on sumoylation in the laboratory of Dr. Frauke Melchior. During this time, she discovered RanBP2 as a SUMO E3 ligase and biochemically characterized its mode of action. In 2006, she returned to Vienna and established her own research group at Max F. Perutz Laboratories, mainly focusing on E2 regulation via sumoylation.
In 2010, she habilitated at the University of Vienna and moved to the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, Germany, as a group leader. There, her Lab studied the regulation of SUMO conjugation by E3 ligases and Ubc9 sumoylation, as well as mechanisms of SUMO chain formation. In 2015, her Lab described a novel class of SUMO E3 ligases, the ZNF451 family.
Andrea Pichler is a Senior Scientist and Independent Group Leader at ETH Zurich. She is based in the laboratory of Prof. Matthias Peter and Prof. Frédéric Allain and supported by Max Planck project funding.
Qualifications and history
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1966 Born in St. Pölten, Austria
Undergraduate studies in Biology at University of Vienna, Austria - 1998 PhD studies at University of Vienna, Austria
- 1998–2005 Postdoctoral fellow at the Novartis Research Institute, Vienna, Austria, at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, and at the University of Göttingen, Germany
- 2006–2009 Independent Project leader at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria
- 2010 Venia docendi in Biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Vienna, Austria
- 2010–2022 Group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
- Since 2022 Group Leader ETH Zurich, Switzerland