Selected Publications

  • Marina Schapfl, Gina LoMastro, Vinzent Braun, Maretoshi Hirai, Michelle Levine, Eva Kiermaier, Verena Labi, Andrew Holland, Andreas Villunger. Exact centriole counts are critical for B cell development but not function.  Preprint BioRxiv; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.14.580240
     
  • Stötzel I and Kiermaier E. (2022) Phagocytosis: The central role of the centrosome. eLife doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84659
     
  • Weier AK*, Homrich M*, Ebbinghaus S, Juda P, Miková E, Hauschild R, Zhang L, Quast T, Mass E, Schlitzer A, Kolanus W, Burgdorf S, Gruß OJ, Hons M, Wieser S, Kiermaier E§.  (2022) Multiple centrosomes enhance migration and immune cell effector functions in mature dendritic cells. Journal of Cell Biology 221 (12): e202107134. doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202107134
     
  • Aglaja Kopf and Eva Kiermaier* (2021). Dynamic microtubule arrays in leukocytes and their role in cell migration and immune synapse formation. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9:635511. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.635511
     
  • Kopf A, Renkawitz J, Hauschild R, Girkontaite I, Tedford K, Merrin J, Thorn-Seshold O, Trauner D, Häcker H, Fischer KD, Kiermaier E*§, Sixt M. (2020) Microtubules control cellular shape and coherence in amoeboid migrating cells. Journal of Cell Biology Jun 1; 219(6):e201907154.
     
  • Kiermaier E*§, Moussion C*, Veldkamp CT, Gerardy-Schahn R, de Vries I, Williams LG, Chaffee GR, Phillips AJ, Freiberger F, Imre R, Taleski D, Payne RJ, Braun A, Förster R, Mechtler K, Mühlenhoff M, Volkman BF, Sixt M.§ (2016) Polysialylation controls dendritic cell trafficking by regulating chemokine recognition. Science 351(6269):186-190. 
     
  • Kiermaier E, Sixt M. (2015) Immunology. Fragmented communication between immune cells. Science349(6252):1055-6.
     
  • Molatore S, Kiermaier E, Jung CB, Lee M, Pulz E, Höfler H, Atkinson MJ, Pellegata NS. (2010) Characterization of a naturally-occurring p27 mutation predisposing to multiple endocrine tumors. Molecular Cancer 9:116.
     
  • Kiermaier E, Woehrer S, Peng Y, Mechtler K, Westermann S. (2009) A Dam1-based artificial kinetochore is sufficient to promote chromosome segregation in budding yeast. Nature Cell Biology 11(9):1109-15.


*equally contributing authors. §corresponding authors.