Beatrice Weykopf, PhD, is the project manager for Team Scherzer. Her doctoral research regards the discovery of novel phenotypes in stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons from patients carrying a mutation in LRRK2, while she trained as a neuroscientist under Dr. Oliver Brüstle.
She joined Dr. Scherzer’s Neurogenomics Laboratory and used her extensive stem cell experience to set up and oversee the stem cell disease modeling platform at the laboratory.
Due to her expertise, one of her key responsibilities is providing for her projects, the lab, and collaborators dopamine neurons as well as cortical neurons, another cell type that is lost in Parkinson’s disease (PD). She was leading several major projects by using her knowledge to elucidate key, novel genes and genetic networks linked to PD susceptibility or progression and how this could be therapeutically addressed using patient-derived neuronal models.
Joining Dr. Scherzer at Yale at the Adams Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research as the Director of Operations of the Neurohub and Project Manager for the ASAP grant, she transitioned towards a more operational position to obtain leadership and project management skills, in addition to continuing her research efforts.
