Biography
Prof. Maria Anna Ciemerych-Litwinienko is a developmental and cell biologist. From the beginning of her career, she was associated with the University of Warsaw, where she obtained both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biology, under the supervision of Prof. Andrzej K. Tarkowski. During her Ph.D., she completed one long-term internship at the University of Manchester and several short-term ones at the Institute Jacques Monod in Paris. After completion of Ph.D., MACL, as a visiting fellow, did her research first in Magda Żernicka-Goetz’s lab at Wellcome/CRC Institute (currently Gurdon Institute)/Cambridge University and then as a postdoctoral fellow with Piotr Siciński at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School in Boston.
After returning to Poland, she contined her work at the Faculty of Biology at Warsaw University. She is an elected member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU). During her academic career, she received a START Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science, the ‘Stay with us’ POLITYKA Fellowship, and L’Oreal/UNESCO for Woman in Science Fellowship. She is a member of AdademiaNet. She is also an academic teacher involved in many outreach activities, such as taking part in the EuroGCT network. In her research, she is focusing on the differentiation of stem cells, skeletal muscle regeneration, and finding the way to improve it. Several of her research projects were focused on the role of myogenic differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. She teaches at the Faculty of Biology as well as the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Warsaw, actively popularizing science. In her free time, she creates collages.
Title of presentation:
Multifaceted role of miR181 in pluripotent stem cell differentiation.
Highlights:
- Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are perfect tools to study cell differentiation and design cell-based therapies.
- micro RNA regulate every cell prcessess.
- micro RNA can be used to direct stem cell differentiation.
- miR181 can improve neuro- and myogenesis of pluripotent stem cells.
- PSC – derived organoids serve as a model for neuro-myogenic interactions.
Prof. Maria Anna Ciemerych-Litwinienko
Maria Anna Ciemerych-Litwinienko, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Professor at the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, in which she is head of the Department of Cytology as well as the Institute of Developmental Biology and Biomedical Sciences. She completed her M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. at the University of Warsaw. She is a Professor of biological sciences (title, 2012).