Position Title
Associate Member, Environmental Health Sciences Center
Dr. Ana Cristina Grodzki is an Associate Project Scientist in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. Her research focuses on the effects of organophosphorus pesticides (OPs) on nerve-immune cell interactions implicated in airway hyperreactivity, inflammatory response and neuropathic pain.
Position at UC Davis
- Associate Project Scientist, Molecular Biosciences
Areas of Expertise
- Cellular biology
- Molecular biology
- Immunology
- Neurobiology
- Toxicology
Major Research Papers
Gamma secretase activity modulates BMP-7-induced dendritic growth in primary rat sympathetic neurons. Auton Neurosci. 2023 07; 247:103085. Karunungan K, Garza RH, Grodzki AC, Holt M, Lein PJ, Chandrasekaran V. PMID: 37031474; PMCID: PMC10330319.
Oxidized linoleic acid metabolites regulate neuronal morphogenesis in vitro. Neurochem Int. 2023 03; 164:105506. da Costa Souza F, Grodzki ACG, Morgan RK, Zhang Z, Taha AY, Lein PJ. PMID: 36758902; PMCID: PMC10495953.
Glioma-associated microglia/macrophages augment tumorigenicity in canine astrocytoma, a naturally occurring model of human glioma. Neurooncol Adv. 2021 Jan-Dec; 3(1):vdab062. Toedebusch R, Grodzki AC, Dickinson PJ, Woolard K, Vinson N, Sturges B, Snyder J, Li CF, Nagasaka O, Consales B, Vernau K, Knipe M, Murthy V, Lein PJ, Toedebusch CM. PMID: 34131649; PMCID: PMC8193901.
Transient Stimulation with Psychoplastogens Is Sufficient to Initiate Neuronal Growth. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci. 2021 Apr 09; 4(2):452-460. Ly C, Greb AC, Vargas MV, Duim WC, Grodzki ACG, Lein PJ, Olson DE. PMID: 33860174; PMCID: PMC8033616.
Identification of Psychoplastogenic N,N-Dimethylaminoisotryptamine (isoDMT) Analogues through Structure-Activity Relationship Studies. J Med Chem. 2020 02 13; 63(3):1142-1155. Dunlap LE, Azinfar A, Ly C, Cameron LP, Viswanathan J, Tombari RJ, Myers-Turnbull D, Taylor JC, Grodzki AC, Lein PJ, Kokel D, Olson DE. PMID: 31977208; PMCID: PMC7075704
- BS, Federal University of Parana, 1996
- MS, Federal University of Parana, 1999
- PhD, University of Sao Paulo, 2003
- Post-doctoral, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2009
- Post- doctoral, University of California Davis, 2010
- Scientific Initiation from CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Thecnological Develpment, Brazil (1992-1996)
- Masters Scholarship from CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil (1997-1999)
- Scholarship from FAPESP - The Foundation of Support for Research of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1999-2003)
- International Symposium on Extracellular Matrix, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000)
- Award for young investigator for Excellence in Research - Junqueira Award in SIMEC (2000)
- 1999-2003 PhD. Scholarship from FAPESP - The Foundation of Support for Research of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1999-2003)
- Award for Best Scientific Presentation in International Workshop on Signal Transduction in the Activation and Development of Mast Cells and Basophils - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (2001)