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Christina J. Sigurdson, DVM, PhD
Professor of Pathology, UC San Diego and UC Davis
Co-Director, Center for Veterinary Sciences and Comparative Medicine
B.S. University of California, Riverside
D.V.M. University of California, Davis
Ph.D. Colorado State University (Mentor: Dr. Edward A. Hoover)
Dipl. American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Mentor: Dr. Adriano Aguzzi)
Post-doctoral Scholar
UC President’s Postdoctoral Scholar Award Recipient, 2022
Sanford-Burham Prebys Research Institute
My research focuses on the mechanisms driving neuronal toxicity.
Scientific Research Associate
Joie Lin, DVM
Veterinary Research Scholar
I am interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying myelin loss in humans and animals with neurodegenerative disease.
Post-doctoral Scholar
My research focuses on the understanding how the ESCRT pathway functions at the synapse in health and during prion-induced neurodegeneration.
Research Scientist
My research is focused on understanding the mechanism of prion aggregate spread, both intercellularly and intracellularly, and determining how spread differs by strain conformation.
UC San Diego undergraduate researcher
I am investigating the mechanisms underlying endolysosomal dysfunction in prion disease.
UC San Diego undergraduate researcher
My research focuses on axonal homeostasis during toxic signaling driving prion induced neurodegeneration using neuronal models.
Research Assistant
My research focuses on utilizing and developing cellular models to study PrPC induced signaling in health and disease.
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Student Laboratory Assistant
Undergraduate at UC San Diego
Alumni Laboratory Members
Postdoctoral Fellows and Graduate Students
Timothy Kurt, DVM, PhD – Scientific Program Director, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Cyrus Bett, PhD – Scientist, FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Office of Blood Research and Review
Shivanjali Joshi-Barr, PhD – Solution Scientist, Clarivate Analytics
Patricia Gaffney, DVM, MPVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP – Senior Scientist/Pathologist in Disease Investigation, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global
Peter Kobalka, MD – Assistant Professor of Pathology, The Ohio State University
Jessica Lawrence, PhD – Neuroscientist, Genetech
Helen Khuu, BS, MS – Medical school applicant
Joy Chen, BS, MS – Medical school applicant
Julia Callender, PhD – Neuroscientist, Lundbeck
Patricia Aguilar-Calvo, DVM, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Scientific Research Associates
Olivia Winson, DVM
Melanie Lucero, BS
Jun Liu, BS
Nazilla Alderson, BS
Taylor Winrow, BS
Adela Malik, BS
Undergraduate Researchers
Jaidev Bapat
Carlitos Chen
Mona Farahi, MD
Vy Ton
Bailey Chabot
Danielle Nghiem
Joolie Nguyen
Vi Ngyuen
Shiteng Duan
Lara Crosthwaite
Kelly Jin
Luna Bai
Tom Yang
Jessica Ly
Branden Hui
Vi Nguyen
Linda Ding
Kelsea Ericksen
Ryan Jackson
Loren Lavadia
Joshua Asiaban
Kaige Feng