Christina was a research specialist in the lab from July 2015 to April 2017. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior. She was born in Panama to a Brazilian mother and a Barbadian father.

Publications

Tariq, A.*, J. Lin*, M.E. Jackrel*, C.D. Hesketh, P.J. Carman, K.L. Mack, R. Weitzman, C. Gambogi, O.A. Hernandez Murillo, E.A. Sweeny, E. Gurpinar, A.L. Yokom, S.N. Gates, K. Yee, S. Sudesh, J. Stillman, A.N. Rizo, D.R. Southworth, and J. Shorter. (2019). Mining disaggregase sequence space to safely counter TDP-43, FUS, and alpha-synuclein proteotoxicity. Cell Rep. 28(8):2080–2095. pdf file link (*Co-first author).

Chuang, E.*, A.M. Hori*, C.D. Hesketh*, and J. Shorter. (2018). Amyloid assembly and disassembly. J. Cell. Sci. doi: 10.1242/jcs.189928. pdf file link (*Co-first author).