Cell News 04/2019
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PRIZE WINNERS 2019
Curriculum Vitae
Germán Camargo Ortega
Date of birth
November 15, 1987
Place of birth
Bucaramanga, Colombia
Nationality
German
Address
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineer-
ing, ETH Zürich, Mattenstrasse 26
4058, Basel, Switzerland
Email
Phone
+41 (0)613873401
Education
1995 - 2005
Primary and high school, German School Barran-
quilla, Colombia
Nov. 2005
High School Degree (Honor Valedictorian), Ger-
man School, Barranquilla, Colombia
2006 - 2007
Certificate of General Qualification for
University Entrance
(Hochschulzugangsberechtigung)
University of Cologne, Germany
2007 - 2011
Study of Biology
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Sep. 2011
B.Sc. Degree in Biology
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Oct. 2012 –
PhD studies, Institute of Stem Cell Research
Dec. 2018
Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Jan. 2019
PhD Degree in Systemic Neurosciences
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Jan. 2019
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cell Systems Dynamics
Group, ETH Zürich, D-BSSE
Experience & Courses
Jun. 2010 -
Internship, Group Hematopoiesis
Aug. 2010
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, MCB
University of Toronto, Canada
Sep. 2011 -
Internship, Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology
Jan. 2012
RIKEN CDB Kobe, Japan
Mar. 2012 -
Internship, Group Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Oct. 2012
and Group Notch-Signaling
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm
(HERM & CMB), Sweden
Sep. 15 -
Hydra VIII - European Summer School on
21, 2012
Stem Cells & Regenerative
Medicine, Hydra, Greece
Apr. 11 –
Genetic Engineering of Mammalian Stem
23, 2016
Cells, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton,
Cambridge, UK
Jun. 7 –
CSH Course Mouse Development, Stem
26, 2017
Cells & Cancer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, U.S.A
Skills, Affiliations & Awards
Language
Skills Spanish – native speaker
German – near native (C2)
English - highly proficient in spoken and written
English (C1)
Computer Skills
Office Suite - very good
Writing LaTex - good
Programming R - basics
Affiliations
Japanese Society of Developmental
Biologists (JSDB)
International Society for Stem Cell
Research (ISSCR)
German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ)
German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)
Awards
100 Colombianos (2014-2015) –
100 successful Colombians abroad
GSCN travel grant – Keystone Symposium 2017,
U.S.A.
RIKEN CDB travel fellowship – RIKEN CDB Sym-
posium 2017, Japan
HHMI travel grant – CSH Mouse Course 2017,
U.S.A
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds travel grant – CSH
Mouse Course 2017, U.S.A
ISSCR Travel award – ISSCR Annual
Meeting 2018
ISSCR Merit award – ISSCR Annual
Meeting 2018
ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowships - 2019
EMBO Long-Term Fellowship – 2019
GSCN Publication of the Year – 2019
Nikon Young Scientist Award – 2019
Graduate Students’ Award of the Helmholtz
Zentrum München - 2019
Publications
Camargo Ortega G
, Falk S, Johansson PA, Peyre E, Broix L, Sahu SK,
Hirst W, Schlichthaerle T, De
Juan Romero C, Draganova K, Vinopal S, Chinnappa K, Gavranovic A,
Karakaya T, Steininger T,
Merl-Pham J, Feederle R, Shao W, Shi S-H, Hauck SM, et al (2019) The
centrosome protein AKNA
regulates neurogenesis via microtubule organization. Nature 567:
113–117
Bratkovic, T., Modic, M.,
Camargo Ortega, G.
, Drukker, M., and Rogelj,
B. (2018). Neuronal
differentiation induces SNORD115 expression and is accompanied by
post-transcriptional changes of
serotonin receptor 2c mRNA. Scientific reports 8, 5101.
Lanner, F., Lee, K.L.,
Ortega, G.C.
, Sohl, M., Li, X., Jin, S., Hansson, E.M.,
Claesson-Welsh, L.,
Poellinger, L., Lendahl, U., et al. (2013). Hypoxia-induced arterial
differentiation requires
adrenomedullin and notch signaling. Stem cells and development 22,
1360-1369.
Martini, S., Bernoth, K., Main, H.,
Ortega, G.D.
, Lendahl, U., Just, U.,
and Schwanbeck, R. (2013). A
critical role for Sox9 in notch-induced astrogliogenesis and stem cell
maintenance. Stem Cells 31,
741-751.
