Prof. Maria Anna Ciemerych-Litwinienko

Education

• 1991
  MSc. Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 1998
  PhD. Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 2006
  Dr hab. Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 2012
  Full professor, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

Work experience

• 1991 – 1998
  Research Assistant, Department of Embryology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 1998 – 2006
  Researcher and Academic Lecturer, Department of Embryology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 2006 – 2012
  Assisted Professor, Department of Cytology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• 2006
  Head of the Department of Cytology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• Since 2012
  Associate Professor, vice-dean of Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland
  
  

• Czerwinska, A.M., Grabowska, I., Archacka, K., Bem, J., Swierczek, B., Helinska, A., Streminska, W., Fogtman, A., Iwanicka-Nowicka, R., Koblowska, M., Ciemerych, M.A., 2016. Myogenic Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells That Lack a Functional Pax7 Gene. Stem Cells Dev 25, 285-300.

• Kowalski, Kamil; Archacki, Rafał; Archacka, Karolina; Stremińska, Władysława; Paciorek, Anna; Gołąbek, Magdalena; Ciemerych, Maria A.; Brzóska, Edyta., 2015 Stromal derived factor-1 and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor treatment improves regeneration of Pax7-/- mice skeletal muscles. Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2015.

• Brzoska, E., Kowalski, K., Markowska-Zagrajek, A., Kowalewska, M., Archacki, R., Plaskota, I., Streminska, W., Janczyk-Ilach, K., Ciemerych, M.A., 2015. Sdf-1 (CXCL12) induces CD9 expression in stem cells engaged in muscle regeneration. Stem Cell Res Ther 6, 46.

• Archacka, K., Denkis, A., Brzoska, E., Swierczek, B., Tarczyluk, M., Janczyk-Ilach, K., Ciemerych, M.A., Moraczewski, J., 2014. Competence of in vitro cultured mouse embryonic stem cells for myogenic differentiation and fusion with myoblasts. Stem Cells Dev 23, 2455-2468.

• Przewozniak, M., Czaplicka, I., Czerwinska, A.M., Markowska-Zagrajek, A., Moraczewski, J., Streminska, W., Janczyk-Ilach, K., Ciemerych, M.A., Brzoska, E., 2013. Adhesion proteins--an impact on skeletal myoblast differentiation. PLoS One 8, e61760.

• Zimowska, M., Swierczynska, M., Ciemerych, M.A., 2013. Nuclear MMP-9 role in the regulation of rat skeletal myoblasts proliferation. Biol Cell 105, 334-344.

• Brzoska, E., Kowalewska, M., Markowska-Zagrajek, A., Kowalski, K., Archacka, K., Zimowska, M., Grabowska, I., Czerwinska, A.M., Czarnecka-Gora, M., Streminska, W., Janczyk-Ilach, K., Ciemerych, M.A., 2012. Sdf-1 (CXCL12) improves skeletal muscle regeneration via the mobilisation of Cxcr4 and CD34 expressing cells. Biol Cell 104, 722-737.

• Grabowska, I., Archacka, K., Czerwinska, A.M., Krupa, M., Ciemerych, M.A., 2012. Mouse and human pluripotent stem cells and the means of their myogenic differentiation. Results Probl Cell Differ 55, 321-356.

• Grabowska, I., Brzoska, E., Gawrysiak, A., Streminska, W., Moraczewski, J., Polanski, Z., Hoser, G., Kawiak, J., Machaj, E.K., Pojda, Z., Ciemerych, M.A., 2012. Restricted myogenic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells isolated from umbilical cord. Cell Transplant 21, 1711-1726.

• Zimowska, M., Olszynski, K.H., Swierczynska, M., Streminska, W., Ciemerych, M.A., 2012. Decrease of MMP-9 activity improves soleus muscle regeneration. Tissue Eng Part A 18, 1183-1192.

Recent grants:

• National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR) – Development and implementation of new method supporting skeletal muscle regeneration with the mesenchymal stem cells isolated from adipose tissue. 2015 – 2018

• National Science Centre OPUS grant – micro RNA in myogenic differentiation of embryonic stem cells. 2013 – 2017

• Partner in Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-Adhoc-2014-20 Topic: Health Type of action: CSA. Projekt European Consortium for Communicating Stem Cell Research. EuroStemCell. http://www.eurostemcell.org/

• Member of Polish Biochemical Society, since 2007

• Elected member of Cytobiology Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences, 2007 – 2016

• Previous and present referee and/or panel expert for funding institutions: Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland), National Science Centre (Poland), Foundation for Polish Science (Poland), Academy of Findland, Telethon (France), Israel Science Foundation, Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO)

• Panel expert of European Research Council, Foundation for Polish Sciences, National Science Centre Poland

• Member of the Scientific Board of Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Science

• Elected member of Molecular Cell Biology Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences, since 2016

Trainings:

• 1992 (6 months) – TEMPUS Fellow, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

• 1995 – 1997(7 months) – Visiting Fellow, Department de Biologie du Developpement, Institute J.Monod, University of Paris VII, France

• 1998 – 1999 (6 months) – Visiting Fellow, Wellcome/CRC Institute for Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• 1999 – 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

• 2003 (3 months) – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

• 2004 (2 weeks) – Visiting scientist, CNRS/ Universite Rennes1, France

Teaching experience:

• 1991 – 2006 Practicals in Developmental Biology and Experimental mammalian embryology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw,

• Since 2006 Lectures and practicals in: Cell Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Mammalian Histology

• Supervision of B.Sc, M.Sc., Ph.D. projects

Other activities and achievements/family

Outreach activities:

• Lectures and actions dedicated to students, high school and primary school pupils, and nonscientific audience: e.g. Science Festival, Night of Biologists, UniStem Day.

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