Curriculum Vitae - University of Cambridge

1 Personal details
Curriculum Vitae
Gabi Kaminski
Name: Gabriele Susanne Kaminski (née Schierle)
2 Employment / Education
2005 - present Senior scientist at the department of Chemical Engineering,
Univeristy of Cambridge, UK
Maternity leave in between.
2004 - 2005 Scientific Consultant for Zyentia Ltd., Cambridge, UK
2001 - 2005 Post-doctoral scientist at the Centre for Brain Repair, University of
Cambridge, UK
Maternity leave in between.
2000 - 2002 Scientific consultant and project leader for a leading Danish
pharmaceutical company (Lundbeck A/S)
1999 – 2001 Post-doctoral scientist at the department of Physiological Sciences,
Lund University, Sweden
1999 Ph.D. in Medicine at the department of Physiological Sciences, Lund
University, Sweden
1996 Swiss diploma in Biology at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
(magna cum laude)
1990 Final exam taken at the Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium in Feldkirch,
Austria (with distinction)
3 Prizes / Awards
(a) Foulkes Foundation Fellowship (2005)
(b) Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship (2002)
(c) Future Scientific Leader award from the Swedish Society of Medical Research (2000)
(d) Promising Young Scientist award from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (USA)
(1999)
(e) Marie Curie fellowship of the EU (1996)

4 Publications
G.S. Schierle, J.-C. Gander, C.D.’Orlando, M.R. Celio, D.M. Vogt Weisenhorn (1997) Calretinin-immunoreactivity
during postnatal development of the rat isocortex: a qualitative and quantitative study. Cerebral Cortex 7:130-142.
G.S. Schierle, J. Karlsson, and P. Brundin (1998) MK-801 treatment does not enhance the survival of grafted
dopamine neurones. Neuroreport 9:1113-1116.
G.S. Schierle, O. Hansson, M. Leist, P. Nicotera, H. Widner, and P. Brundin (1999) Caspase inhibition reduces
apoptosis and increases survival of nigral transplants. Nature Medicine 5:97-100.
G.S. Schierle, M. Leist, J.C. Martinou, H. Widner, P. Nicotera, P. Brundin (1999). Differential effects of Bcl-2
overexpression on fiber outgrowth and survival of embryonic dopaminergic neurons in intracerebral transplants.
European Journal of Neuroscience 11:3073-3081.
G.S. Kaminski Schierle, O. Hansson, and P. Brundin (1999). Flunarizine improves the survival of grafted
dopaminergic neurons. Neuroscience 94:17-20.
G.S. Kaminski Schierle, O. Hansson, P. Nicotera, P. Brundin, M. Leist (1999). Neuronal death in nigral grafts in the
absence of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase activation. Neuroreport 10:3347-3351.
G.S. Schierle, P. Brundin (1999) Excitotoxicity plays a role in the death of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunopositive nigral
neurons cultured in serum-free medium. Experimental Neurology 157:338-348.
P. Brundin, G.S. Kaminski Schierle. Neuroprotective strategies in neural grafting (1999). In: Dunnett SB, Boulton AA,
Baker GB (editors). Neural Transplantation Methods. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press Inc, pp. 411-440.
P. Brundin, J. Karlsson, M. Emgård, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, O. Hansson, Å. Petersén, R.F. Castilho (2000)
Improving the survival of grafted dopaminergic neurons: a review over current approaches. Cell Transplantation
9:179-195. Cited by 185.
O. Hansson, R.F. Castilho, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, J. Karlsson, P. Nicotera, M. Leist, P. Brundin (2000) Additive
effects of caspase inhibitor and lazaroid on the survival of transplanted rat and human embryonic dopamine neurons.
Experimental Neurology 164: 102-111.
U. Mundt-Petersen, J. Karlsson, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, and P. Brundin (2000) The effects of MK-801 or U-83836E
on the survival of grafted embryonic striatal neurones. Cell Transplantation 9:73-78.
E.N. Maciel, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, O. Hansson, P. Brundin, R.F. Castilho (2003). Cyclosporin A and Bcl-2 do not
inhibit quinolinic acid-induced striatal excitotoxicity in rodents. Experimental Neurology 183:430-7.
J. Bisgaard Boll, M.A. Geist, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, K. Petersen, M. Leist, E. Vaudano (2004). CEP-1347 improves
the survival of embryonic dopaminergic neurons in culture and after grafting into the striatum of hemiparkinsonian
rats. Journal of Neurochemistry 88: 698-707.
Y.H. Ahn, J.C. Bensadoun, P. Aebischer, A.D. Zurn, A. Seiger, A. Bjorklund, O. Lindvall, L. Wahlberg, P. Brundin, G.
S. Kaminski Schierle (2005). Increased fiber outgrowth from xeno-transplanted human embryonic dopaminergic
neurons with co-implants of polymer-encapsulated genetically modified cells releasing glial cell line-derived
neurotrophic factor. Brain Research Bulletin 66:135-42.
S. Schlachter, A. D. Elder, A. Esposito, G. S. Kaminski, J. H. Frank, L. K. van Geest, and C. F. Kaminski (2009).
mhFLIM: Resolution of heterogeneous fluorescence decays in widefield lifetime microscopy. Opt. Express 17: 1557-
1570.
S. Schlachter, S. Schwedler, A. Esposito, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, G.D. Moggridge, C.F. Kaminski (2009). A method
to unmix multiple fluorophores in microscopy images with minimal a priori information. Opt. Express 17: 22747-60.
A. Esposito, S. Schlachter, G.S. Schierle, A.D. Elder, A. Diaspro, F.S. Wouters, C.F. Kaminski, A.I. Iliev. Quantitative
fluorescence microscopy techniques (2009). Methods Mol Biol.586:117-42.
A.D. Elder, A. Domin, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, C. Lindon, J. Pines, A. Esposito, and C.F. Kaminski. A quantitative
protocol for dynamic measurements of protein interactions by FRET-sensitized fluorescence emission (2009). Journal
of the Royal Society Interface 6: 59-81.
T.J. van Ham, A. Esposito, J.R. Kumita, S.T. Hsu, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, C.F. Kaminski, C.M. Dobson, E.A.A.
Nollen, C.W. Bertoncini. Towards multiparametric fluorescent imaging of amyloid formation: Studies of a YFP model
of alpha-synuclein aggregation (2010). J. Mol. Biol. 395: 627–642.

S. Chakrabortee, F. Meersman, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, C.W. Bertoncini, B. McGee, C.F. Kaminski, A. Tunnacliffe.
Catalytic and chaperone-like functions in an intrinsically disordered protein associated with desiccation tolerance
(2010). PNAS 107:16084-16089.
E.K. Esbjorner, C. Bertoncini, S. Schlachter, C.M. Dobson, C. Kaminski, G.S. Kaminski Schierle. Multiparametric
fluorescence microscopy imaging of amyloid beta allows for direct observations of protein misfolding in vitro and in
cells (2010). FEBS JOURNAL 277: 86-86.
A. Esposito, A.N. Bader, S. Schlachter, D.J. van den Heuvel, G.S. Kaminski Schierle, A.R. Ventikaraman, C.F.
Kaminski, H.C. Gerritsen. Hyper dimensional imaging microscopy by confocal laser scanning spectropolarimetry
(2011) Optics Express, 19:2546–2555.
F.T.S. Chan, C.F. Kaminski, G.S. Kaminski Schierle. HomoFRET fluorescence anisotropy imaging as a tool to study
molecular self assembly in live cells.(2011). ChemPhysChem, DOI:10.1002/cphc.201000833, in press.
G.S. Kaminski Schierle, C.W. Bertoncini, F.T.S. Chan, A.T. van der Goot, S. Schwedler, J. Skepper, S. Schlachter, T.
van Ham, A. Esposito, J. Kumita, E.A.A. Nollen, C.M. Dobson, C.F. Kaminski. Optical imaging of the nature of αsynuclein
amyloid formation in vitro and in vivo (2011). ChemPhysChem, DOI:10.1002/cphc.201000996, in press
G. S. Kaminski Schierle, S. van de Linde, M. Erdelyi, E. K. Esbjörner, T. Klein, E. Rees, C. W. Bertoncini, C. M.
Dobson . M. Sauer, C. F. Kaminski . In Situ Measurements of the Formation and Morphology of Intracellular ß-Amyloid
Fibrils by Super-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging-submitted to JACS.