Dr Georg Meisl

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

G Meisl, E Hidari, K Allinson, T Rittman, SL DeVos, JS Sanchez, CK Xu, KE Duff, KA Johnson, JB Rowe, BT Hyman, TPJ Knowles and D Klenerman "In vivo rate-determining steps of tau seed accumulation in Alzheimer’s disease", Science Advances 7, eabh1448 (2021)
G Meisl, T Kurt, I Condado-Morales, C Bett, S Sorce, M Nuvolone, TCT Michaels, D Heinzer, M Avar, SIA Cohen, S Horneman, A Aguzzi, CM Dobson, CJ Sigurdson and TPJ Knowles “Scaling analysis reveals the mechanism and rates of prion replication in vivo”, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 28, 365 (2021)
G Meisl, TPJ Knowles, D Klenerman “The molecular processes underpinning prion-like spreading and seed amplification in protein aggregation.” Current Opinion in Neurobiology 61, 58 (2020)
G Meisl, L Rajah, SAI Cohen, M Pfammatter, A Šarić, E Hellstrand, AK Buell, A Aguzzi, S Linse, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson and TPJ Knowles, "Scaling behaviour and rate-determining steps in filamentous self-assembly", Chemcial Science (2017)
G Meisl, X Yang, CM Dobson, S Linse and TPJ Knowles, "Modulation of electrostatic interactions to reveal a reaction network unifying the aggregation behaviour of the Aβ42 peptide and its variants", Chemical Science 8, 4352 (2017)
G Meisl, JB Kirkegaard, P Arosio, M Vendruscolo, CM Dobson, S Linse and TPJ Knowles, “Molecular mechanisms of protein aggregation from global fitting of kinetic models”, Nature Protocols 11, 252 (2016)
G Meisl, X Yang, E Hellstrand, B Frohm, JB Kirkegaard, SIA Cohen, CM Dobson, S Linse and TPJ Knowles, "Differences in nucleation behavior underlie the contrasting aggregation kinetics of the Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 9384 (2014)

Publications

A novel microfluidic immunoassay for in-solution quantification of alloantibody affinity and concentration in transplantation and beyond

A Priddey, G Karahan, M Schneider, G Meisl, T Scheidt, C Xu, S Peacock, R Buchli, A Mulder, S Heidt, F Class, T Knowles, V Kosmolipaptsis

British Journal of Surgery

(2023)

110

znad101.010

(doi: 10.1093/bjs/znad101.010)

Microfluidic antibody affinity profiling of alloantibody-HLA interactions in human serum.

MM Schneider, T Scheidt, AJ Priddey, CK Xu, M Hu, G Meisl, SRA Devenish, CM Dobson, V Kosmoliaptsis, TPJ Knowles

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

(2023)

228

115196

(doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2023.115196)

Design of amyloidogenic peptide traps

DD Sahtoe, EA Andrzejewska, HL Han, E Rennella, MM Schneider, G Meisl, M Ahlrichs, J Decarreau, H Nguyen, A Kang, P Levine, M Lamb, X Li, AK Bera, LE Kay, TPJ Knowles, D Baker

(2023)

(doi: 10.1101/2023.01.13.523785)

Continuous population-level monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a large European metropolitan region.

M Emmenegger, E De Cecco, D Lamparter, RPB Jacquat, J Riou, D Menges, T Ballouz, D Ebner, MM Schneider, IC Morales, B Doğançay, J Guo, A Wiedmer, J Domange, M Imeri, R Moos, C Zografou, L Batkitar, L Madrigal, D Schneider, C Trevisan, A Gonzalez-Guerra, A Carrella, IL Dubach, CK Xu, G Meisl, V Kosmoliaptsis, T Malinauskas, N Burgess-Brown, R Owens, S Hatch, J Mongkolsapaya, GR Screaton, K Schubert, JD Huck, F Liu, F Pojer, K Lau, D Hacker, E Probst-Müller, C Cervia, J Nilsson, O Boyman, L Saleh, K Spanaus, A von Eckardstein, DJ Schaer, N Ban, C-J Tsai, J Marino, GFX Schertler, N Ebert, V Thiel, J Gottschalk, BM Frey, RR Reimann, S Hornemann, AM Ring, TPJ Knowles, MA Puhan, CL Althaus, I Xenarios, DI Stuart, A Aguzzi

iScience

(2023)

105928

(doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.105928)

Perphenazine–Macrocycle Conjugates Rapidly Sequester the Aβ42 Monomer and Prevent Formation of Toxic Oligomers and Amyloid

SR Ball, JSP Adamson, MA Sullivan, MR Zimmermann, V Lo, M Sanz-Hernandez, X Jiang, AH Kwan, ADJ McKenzie, EL Werry, TPJ Knowles, M Kassiou, G Meisl, MH Todd, PJ Rutledge, M Sunde

ACS Chem Neurosci

(2022)

(doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00498)

Characterization of full-length p53 aggregates and their kinetics of formation.

L Julian, JC Sang, Y Wu, G Meisl, JH Brelstaff, A Miller, MR Cheetham, M Vendruscolo, TPJ Knowles, FS Ruggeri, C Bryant, S Ros, KM Brindle, D Klenerman

Biophys J

(2022)

121

4280

(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.10.013)

Influence of denaturants on amyloid β42 aggregation kinetics

T Weiffert, G Meisl, S Curk, R Cukalevski, A Šarić, TPJ Knowles, S Linse

Frontiers in Neuroscience

(2022)

943355

(doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.943355)

Uncovering the universality of self-replication in protein aggregation and its link to disease

G Meisl, CK Xu, JD Taylor, TCT Michaels, A Levin, D Otzen, D Klenerman, S Matthews, S Linse, M Andreasen, TPJ Knowles

Science advances

(2022)

eabn6831

(doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abn6831)

A conformational switch controlling the toxicity of the prion protein

K Frontzek, M Bardelli, A Senatore, A Henzi, RR Reimann, S Bedir, M Marino, R Hussain, S Jurt, G Meisl, M Pedotti, F Mazzola, G Siligardi, O Zerbe, M Losa, T Knowles, A Lakkaraju, C Zhu, P Schwarz, S Hornemann, MG Holt, L Simonelli, L Varani, A Aguzzi

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

(2022)

831

(doi: 10.1038/s41594-022-00814-7)

Both COVID-19 infection and vaccination induce high-affinity cross-clade responses to SARS-CoV-2 variants

M Emmenegger, S Fiedler, SD Brugger, SRA Devenish, AS Morgunov, A Ilsley, F Ricci, AY Malik, T Scheier, L Batkitar, L Madrigal, M Rossi, G Meisl, AK Lynn, L Saleh, A von Eckardstein, TPJ Knowles, A Aguzzi

iScience

(2022)

104766

(doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104766)

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