Curriculum vitae Evelyn Medawar

EVELYN MEDAWAR

Dickhardtstr. 48, 12159 Berlin, Germany Mobile: +4916098749827

Email: evelynmedawar@web.de

PERSONAL SUMMARY My main interest is the understanding of neural correlates of decision-making, brain-gut interaction and consciousness. I am highly determined to carry out my PhD project and to combine neurosciences and my personal interest for nutrition and the environment.

EDUCATION October 2017 — now

PhD student at the Berlin School of Mind & Brain, Humboldt-University Berlin and Charité Berlin, Germany; in cooperation with Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany

September 2015 — July 2017

Dual MSc Brain and Mind Sciences, University College London (UCL), England / University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris 6 (UPMC) & Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris, France

Results: 60 ECTS (71% distinction)

Research (MSc theses) Advisor: Dr Frances Edwards (Neurophysiology), UCL Title: The influence of soluble and insoluble amyloid-β on microglia cells in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer’s disease Methods: transgenic mouse models, immunohistochemistry, protein extraction, immunoprecipitation mass-spectrometry Grade: merit (67%)

Advisors: Dr Hilke Plassmann (Consumer Neurosciences), Dr Liane Schmidt (Cognitive Neurosciences), UPMC/ENS

Title: The effects of bariatric surgery on fMRI resting-state connectivity and patience for food Methods: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging analyses with

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SPM12 and Connectivity toolbox (CONN) Grade: distinction (75%)

September 2012 — July 2015

BSc Biology, LMU University Muenchen, Germany

Results: 180 ECTS, grade 1.99

Research (BSc thesis) Advisor: Prof Dr Thomas Ott (Genetics) Title: New method for the analysis of protein-protein interaction in A. thaliana Methods: transformation (E. coli, yeast, tobacco via A. tumefaciens, A. thaliana via floral dipping/ infiltration), sequencing, DNA/RNA isolation, restriction digestion, ligation, PCR, electrophoresis, Western Blot, SDS-PAGE, microscopy Grade: 1.7

Laboratory internships February — April 2015, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Advisor: Dr Stephanie Yanow (Public Health School) Title: Cross-talk between P. falciparum and P. vivax and its clinical relevance for malaria vaccines Methods: ELISA, Western Blot, human blood culture, FACS

August 2014, Genetics Department, LMU University Muenchen, Germany

Advisor: Dr Andreas Brachmann (Genetics) Title: Applications of GoldenGate Cloning Methods: cloning, PCR, electrophoresis, transformation into bacteria

and yeast, agrobacterium-mediated expression

2003 — 2012

Abitur/ German A levels, Cecilien-Gymnasium, Duesseldorf, Germany

Higher levels: Biology, English Standard level: Bilingual History, Mathematics Others: Physics, German, French, Political Sciences, Philosophy, Art, Sports Results: 1.0 (very good, highest grade)

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August 2009 — July 2010

International Baccalaureate Year One, Ecole Nouvelle de la Suisse Romande, Lausanne, Switzerland

Higher level: Biology, Economy, English, French Standard level: Mathematics, History, Italian

WORK EXPERIENCE November 2017 – now Student worker, share Foods GmbH, Berlin, Germany In this social enterprise working in line with the “1+1 principle”, I am responsible for acquiring new cooperation partners and keeping the relation up with already acquired ones.

July 2011 Lab intern, Bayer HealthCare AG, Cologne, Germany I was learning research methods in genetics (e.g. cloning, PCR, cultures, media preparation) in the ‘Antibody Lead Discovery’ research group.

April 2007 Intern, Orthopaedic Clinic, TOC, Gummersbach, Germany At TOC I was welcoming and assisting patients during their medical treatment process (e.g. shadowing in consultation, X-ray, surgery).

SKILLS Language skills:

German (native) English (fluent, IELTS 8.5) French (fluent) Italian (basic)

IT skills: Matlab (moderate) SPSS (moderate) SPM (moderate) RStudio (moderate) Linux (moderate)

Organisational skills: MPI CBS Green Team - Organisational Member (now) Max Planck Sustainability Network - Interim Steering Committee (now)

UCL Alumni Club Berlin - Organisational Member (now)

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Student Academic Representative UCL (2015-2016) Committee member of the Institute of Neurology, UCL (2015-2016) Committee member of UCL’s German Society (2015-2016) Class spokesman and organiser at high school (2010-2012)

Business skills: Enterprise Bootcamp, University College London (2015) Business Plan in Health Care, LMU Munich (2014)

CONFERENCES 14-15 Nov 2019 Doing Good Symposium, MPI for Human and Cognitive Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

12-13 Oct 2019 VEGMED Conference, King’s College London, London, UK

9-12 Jul 2019 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Utrecht, Netherlands (presenting poster)

9-13 Jun 2019 Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Rome, Italy (presenting poster)

16-17 Mar 2019 Max Planck Society Sustainability Network Symposium, Magdeburg, Germany

12-13 Apr 2019 SFB Retreat „Obesity Mechanisms“, Nimbschen, Germany (presenting poster)

6-8 Nov 2018 EASO COMs Collaborating Centre for Obesity Management Radisson Blu Hotel, Leipzig, Germany

13 Oct 2017 Berlin Neuroscience Meeting Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, Germany

4 May 2017 New trends in decision-making: theory and evidence Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

1-3 Mar 2017 118th Meeting of the British Neuropathological Society Royal College of the Physicians, London, England

1-2 Feb 2017 Symposium Cognition and Psychiatry ICM, Paris, France

24 Jun 2016 UCL Neuroscience Symposium UCL, London, England

22 Jun 2016 Data Science and Government Conference Oxford Blavatnik School of Government, England

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10 Jun 2016 Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutics The Society of Medicines Research, 'Living Tomorrow' Conference Centre, Brussels, Belgium

27 May 2016 Queen Square Symposium UCL, London, England (presenting poster)

11 Apr 2016 Quanterix Protein Quantification Workshop UCL Queen Square, London, England

2-4 Mar 2016 117th Meeting of the British Neuropathological Society Royal College of the Physicians, London, England

5-6 Mar 2015 Parasite Immunology Symposium University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

FREE-TIME ACTIVITIES

cooking, nature, yoga, tennis, cycling

REFEREES Prof Dr. Arno Villringer, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany, villringer@cbs.mpg.de PD Dr. Veronica Witte, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany, witte@cbs.mpg.de Prof. Dr. Soyoung Q. Park, Universitaet zu Lübeck, Department for Social Psychology, Germany, soyoung.park@uni-luebeck.de Dr. Hilke Plassmann, Associate Professor, INSEAD/ENS, hilke.plassmann@insead.edu Dr. Liane Schmidt, Postdoctoral fellow, INSEAD/ENS, liane.schmidt@insead.edu Dr Frances Edwards, UCL, f.a.edwards@ucl.ac.uk Prof. Dr. Thomas Ott, LMU Muenchen, Thomas.Ott@biologie.uni-muenchen.de Dr. Stephanie Yanow, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, yanow@ualberta.ca

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Medawar, E., Huhn, S., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V.: The effects of plant-based diets on the body and the brain: A systematic review. Translational Psychiatry 9(1), 1-17 (2019).

Gnidehou, S., Mitran, C. J., Arango, E., Banman, S., Mena, A., Medawar, E., Lima, B. A. S., Doritchamou, J., Rajwani, J., Jin, A. et al.: Cross-species immune recognition between plasmodium vivax duffy binding protein antibodies and the plasmodium

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falciparum surface antigen VAR2CSA. The Journal of Infectious Diseases 219 (1), S. 110 - 120 (2019).

Medawar, E., Benway, T. A., Liu, W., Hanan, T. A., Haslehurst, P., James, O. T., Yap, K., Muessig, L., Moroni, F., Nahaboo Solim, M. A. et al.: Effects of rising amyloidβ levels on hippocampal synaptic transmission, microglial response and cognition in APPSwe/PSEN1M146V transgenic mice. EBioMedicine 39, S. 422 - 435 (2019).

Schmidt, L., Medawar, E., Aron-Wisnewsky, J., Genser, L., Poitou, C., Clément, K. & Plassmann, H.: The brain’s hedonic valuation system’s resting-state connectivity predicts weight loss and correlates with leptin. (submitted).

Medawar, E., Schmidt, L., & Plassmann, H. (2018). Resting-state connectivity changes in self-control networks in obese before and after bariatric surgery compared to lean. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 28, S68-S69.

POSTERMedawar, E., Riedel-Heller, S., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V.: Anthropometric and psychological correlates of following a vegetarian diet: A large cohort cross-sectional approach. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Utrecht, Netherlands (2019).

Medawar, E., Witte, A. V., Villringer, A., Beyer, F.: Effect of scanner version on brain morphometric measures derived from T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. The OHBM Annual Meeting 2019, Rome, Italy (2019).

Medawar, E., Thieleking, R., von Bergen, M., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V.: The GUT-BRAIN study: Short-term effect of a high-fiber diet on gut-brain communication. Retreat Collaborative Research Council 1052 "Obesity Mechanisms" , Grimma, Germany (2019).

Medawar, E., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V.: Metabolic and psychological correlates of following a vegetarian diet: A large cohort cross-sectional approach. MPI CBS Department of Neurology Retreat, Leipzig, Germany (2018).

Medawar, E., Villringer, A., Witte, A. V.: The effects of plant-based diets (vegetarian / vegan) on the body and the brain: A systematic review. Aegina Summer School 2018 “New Perspectives & Methods on Social Cognition”, Aegina Island, Greece (2018).

Medawar E.*, Schmidt L.*, Aron-Wisnewsky J., Poitou-Bernert C., Clement K., Plassmann H. (*contributed equally). Impact of severe obesity on resting-state connectivity in brain systems related to valuation and self-control pre- vs. post-bariatric

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surgery. Poster presented at Berlin School of Mind & Brain Symposium; 2017 December 8; Berlin, Germany.

Medawar E., Baidildinova G., Cummings D.M., Salih D.A., Edwards F.A. The influence of soluble and insoluble amyloid-β on microglia cells in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer’s disease. Poster presented at Queen Square Symposium; 2016 May 27; London, UK.

TALKS 15 Nov 2019 Keynote lecture „Hirnveränderungen nach bariatrischer Chirurgie? Neuronale Korrelate beim Menschen“ Forschungstage Bariatrie Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Germany

19 Nov 2018 Guest talk invited by Prof. Dr. Soyoung Park Universitaet zu Lübeck, Germany

17 Mar 2018 ECNP workshop for Junior Scientists ‘Resting-state connectivity changes in self-control networks in obese before and after bariatric surgery compared to lean’

Nice, France

30 Nov 2017 Seminar talk ‘Food for the brain’, invited by Dr. Liane Schmidt Paris Descartes, Paris, France

ACQUIRED FUNDING Jul 2018 — now

PhD scholarship, Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, Osnabrück, Germany

Sep 2018 — Oct 2019 Entrepreneurial stipend, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft Herausforderung

Unternehmertum

Oct 2017 — Jun 2018

PhD scholarship, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin and Charité Berlin, Germany

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TEACHING November 2018

Nutrition Psychology – practical (16h), part of BSc Medical Nutrition Sciences, Universitaet zu Lübeck, Germany

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Interview, Subramanian, S. & Eichel, M.: Sustainability within the MPS - It matters for everyone!. Max Planck PhDnet Offspring Blog (2019)

Article, Medawar, E.: Take home message: “Your shopping list is a ballot paper and your lunch is your immediate opportunity for action”. Max Planck PhDnet Offspring Blog (2019)

Interview, Vielhaus, C.: So bekommt dein Darm noch mehr Charme. Perspective Daily (2019)

Article, Medawar, E.: Why do people believe in miracle foods? Charité NeuroScience Newsletter (CNS) (12/2) (2019)

Interview, Wöhlbier, A.-K.: Darm-Hirn-Kommunikation: Drei Fragen an Ronja Thieleking und Evelyn Medawar. Leipziger Volkszeitung (LVZ) (166) (2019)

Talk, Witte, A. V.; Medawar, E.: Nervennahrung?: So wirkt sich unsere Ernährung auf das Gehirn aus. Urania Vortragsreihe "Berlin Brains" 2019, Berlin, Germany (2019)

PEER-REVIEWER Environmental Research, Heliyon, Diagnosis and Therapies: Complementary and Traditional Medicine, Journal of Human Nutrition and Food Science

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