Michael Schoof

Alumni Graduate Student

Scientific Interest

Molecular mechanisms of aging; Pharmacological modulation of aging and aging-associated phenotypes

Current Research Interests

Understanding how regulation of the integrated stress response impacts memory

Former Lab Affiliations

2011-2012	Dr. Carrie Rinker-Schaeffer, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
2012-2016	Dr. Anne Brunet, Stanford University, Stanford CA
2013	Dr. Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
2016-2017	Dr. Julie Ahringer, University of Cambridge Gurdon Institute, Cambridge UK

Education

2012-2016	B.S. Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology – Stanford University, Stanford CA
2016-2017	MPhil Genetics – University of Cambridge, Churchill College, Cambridge UK

Selected Publications

Boone M, Wang L, Lawrence R, Frost A, Walter P, Schoof M. A point mutation in the nucleotide exchange factor eIF2B constitutively activates the integrated stress response by allosteric modulation. eLife 11:e76171, 2022 Publication identifiers: (PMID: 35416150)
Schoof M, Wang L, Cogan JZ, Lawrence RE, Boone M, Wuerth JD, Frost A, Walter P. Viral evasion of the integrated stress response through antagonism of eIF2-P binding to eIF2B. Nat Comms (2021) 12:7103, 2021 Publication identifiers: (PMID: not available)
Schoof M, Wang L, Cogan JZ, Lawrence R, Boone M, Wuerth JD, Frost A, Walter P. Viral Evasion of the Integrated Stress Response Through Antagonistic eIF2-P Mimicry. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.07.447473, 2021 Publication identifiers: (PMID: not available)
Schoof M, Boone M, Wang L, Lawrence R, Frost A, Walter P. eIF2B conformation and assembly state regulate the integrated stress response. eLife 10:e65703, 2021 Publication identifiers: (PMID: 33688831)
Schoof M, Faust B, Saunders RA, Sangwan S, Rezelj V, Hoppe N, Boone M, Billesbølle CB, Puchades C, Azumaya CM, Kratochvil HT, Zimanyi M, Deshpande I, Liang J, Dickinson S, Nguyen HC, Chio CM, Merz GE, Thompson MC, Diwanji D, Schaefer K, Anand AA, Dobzinski N, Zha BS, Simoneau CR, Leon K, White KM, Chio US, Gupta M, Jin M, Li F, Liu Y, Zhang K, Bulkley D, Sun M, Smith AM, Rizo AN, Moss F, Brilot AF, Pourmal S, Trenker R, Pospiech T, Gupta S, Barsi-Rhyne B, Belyy V, Barile-Hill AW, Nock S, Liu Y, Krogan NJ, Ralston CY, Swaney DL, García-Sastre A, Ott M, Vignuzzi M, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Walter P, Manglik A. An ultra-potent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike. Science. 10.1126/science.abe3255, 2020 Publication identifiers: (PMID: 33154106)