Research Associate

 

Education

​2016 - PhD in Biophysical Chemistry, University of Cambridge

2011 - MSci in Natural Sciences, Chemistry, UNiversity of Cambridge

2010 - Cambridge-MIT Exchange Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Research Interests

Development and application of fundamental biophysical theories to data analysis in a biologically relevant context, Protein Aggregation, Biophysical Chemistry, High Throughput Screening

 

Selected Publications

 

Publications

Attenuating the Toxicity of Amyloid-Beta Aggregation with Specific Species
R Limbocker, B Mannini, M Perni, S Chia, G Heller, FS Ruggeri, J Habchi, G Meisl, PK Challa, M Zasloff, TPJ Knowles, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson
Biophysical Journal
(2017)
112
Secondary nucleation of monomers on fibril surface dominates $\alpha$-synuclein aggregation and provides autocatalytic amyloid amplification
R Gaspar, G Meisl, AK Buell, L Young, CF Kaminski, TPJ Knowles, E Sparr, S Linse
Q Rev Biophys
(2017)
50
β-Synuclein suppresses both the initiation and amplification steps of α-synuclein aggregation via competitive binding to surfaces.
JWP Brown, AK Buell, TCT Michaels, G Meisl, J Carozza, P Flagmeier, M Vendruscolo, TPJ Knowles, CM Dobson, C Galvagnion
Scientific Reports
(2016)
6
Physical determinants of the self-replication of protein fibrils.
A Šarić, AK Buell, G Meisl, TCT Michaels, CM Dobson, S Linse, TPJ Knowles, D Frenkel
Nat Phys
(2016)
12
Mutations associated with familial Parkinson's disease alter the initiation and amplification steps of α-synuclein aggregation.
P Flagmeier, G Meisl, M Vendruscolo, TPJ Knowles, CM Dobson, AK Buell, C Galvagnion
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2016)
113
Self-assembly of MPG1, a hydrophobin protein from the rice blast fungus that forms functional amyloid coatings, occurs by a surface-driven mechanism.
CLL Pham, A Rey, V Lo, M Soulès, Q Ren, G Meisl, TPJ Knowles, AH Kwan, M Sunde
Scientific Reports
(2016)
6
Electrostatically-guided inhibition of Curli amyloid nucleation by the CsgC-like family of chaperones.
JD Taylor, WJ Hawthorne, J Lo, A Dear, N Jain, G Meisl, M Andreasen, C Fletcher, M Koch, N Darvill, N Scull, A Escalera-Maurer, L Sefer, R Wenman, S Lambert, J Jean, Y Xu, B Turner, SG Kazarian, MR Chapman, D Bubeck, A de Simone, TPJ Knowles, SJ Matthews
Scientific reports
(2016)
6
A general reaction network unifies the aggregation behaviour of the A$\beta$42 peptide and its variants
G Meisl, X Yang, CM Dobson, S Linse, TPJ Knowles
(2016)
A general reaction network unifies the aggregation behaviour of the A$β$42 peptide and its variants
G Meisl, X Yang, CM Dobson, S Linse, TPJ Knowles
(2016)
An Environmentally Sensitive Fluorescent Dye as a Multidimensional Probe of Amyloid Formation.
EV Yates, G Meisl, TPJ Knowles, CM Dobson
Journal of Physical Chemistry B
(2016)
120

Postdoctoral researcher

Telephone number

01223 763845 (shared), 01223 763842

Email address