Christine Weber-Schmidt

Chrissy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology from Reed College, where her senior thesis involved optimizing IHC and ISH protocols to visualize neuronal activity and examine the correlation of brain expression and behaviors in cichlid fish. She then transitioned to OHSU working under Dr. Mandel to optimize scoring and behavioral tasks and AAV brain injections in p21 mice developing Rett Syndrome (MeCP2-/-). She also worked on a project to visualize REST transcript in human and mouse brain samples using IHC. In 2017, she shifted focus to type II diabetes and islet metabolism with a group at SIBCR, where she studied amyloid formation in mice over time in the pancreas and tested pharmacological agents in the established models. She was most recently in Dr. Hill’s transplant immunology lab for 3 years focused on T cell immunology and exhaustion in preclinical mouse transplant models focusing on GVHD, leukemia and myeloma. She is current working in Dr. Rui Costa’s lab as lab manager.