Gabriela Schröder completed her undergraduate studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa where she focused on biocatalysis using heme-center cytochrome P450s (CYP450s). Dr. Schröder was subsequently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Biochemistry at Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
During her graduate studies, Dr. Schröder joined the Neutron Protein Crystallography research group of Dr. Flora Meilleur. She conducted her thesis research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She performed neutron protein crystallography diffraction experiments at the neutron scattering beamlines IMAGINE and MaNDi at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), respectively. Dr. Schröder studied the structure and reaction mechanism of copper-center lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) as well as CYP450s using X-ray and neutron scattering techniques.
Dr. Schröder continues to work on the study of metalloprotein structure, chemistry and their biocatalytic applications.
