Stephanie Sandoval-Pistorius, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP Award, University of California San Francisco, 2024-2027
• UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, 2024-2025
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, University of California San Francisco, 2024
• K00 DSPAN Fellowship (NINDS), University of California San Francisco, 2022-2026
• F99 DSPAN Fellowship (NINDS), University of Michigan, 2020-2022
• F31 NRSA Fellowship (NIA), University of Michigan, 2018-2019

Education & Training

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• PhD Neuroscience University of Michigan 2022
• MS Neuroscience Brigham Young University 2017
• BS Neuroscience Brigham Young University 2015

Publications (8)

Top publication keywords:
Gap JunctionsAntimalarialsLewy BodiesGABAergic NeuronsDeep Brain StimulationAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingConnexinsRewardMefloquineReceptors, NicotinicAutophagy-Related ProteinsVentral Tegmental AreaEthanolParkinson DiseaseGlobus Pallidus

• Physiological effects of dual target DBS in an individual with Parkinson's disease and a sensing-enabled pulse generator.
  Parkinsonism & related disorders 2024 Cummins DD, Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Cernera S, Fernandez-Gajardo R, Hammer LH, Starr PA
• Advances in Deep Brain Stimulation: From Mechanisms to Applications.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2023 Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Hacker ML, Waters AC, Wang J, Provenza NR, de Hemptinne C, Johnson KA, Morrison MA, Cernera S
• Ubiquilin-2 regulates pathological alpha-synuclein.
  Scientific reports 2023 Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Gerson JE, Liggans N, Ryou JH, Oak K, Li X, Negron-Rios KY, Fischer S, Barsh H, Crowley EV, Skinner ME, Sharkey LM, Barmada SJ, Paulson HL
• Disrupting the Balance of Protein Quality Control Protein UBQLN2 Accelerates Tau Proteinopathy.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2022 Gerson JE, Sandoval-Pistorius S, Welday JP, Rodriguez A, Gregory JD, Liggans N, Schache K, Li X, Trzeciakiewicz H, Barmada S, Sharkey LM, Paulson HL
• Modeling UBQLN2-mediated neurodegenerative disease in mice: Shared and divergent properties of wild type and mutant UBQLN2 in phase separation, subcellular localization, altered proteostasis pathways, and selective cytotoxicity.
  Neurobiology of disease 2020 Sharkey LM, Sandoval-Pistorius SS, Moore SJ, Gerson JE, Komlo R, Fischer S, Negron-Rios KY, Crowley EV, Padron F, Patel R, Murphy GG, Paulson HL
• Ventral Tegmental Area GABA Neurons Are Resistant to GABA(A) Receptor-Mediated Inhibition During Ethanol Withdrawal.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2018 Nelson AC, Williams SB, Pistorius SS, Park HJ, Woodward TJ, Payne AJ, Obray JD, Shin SI, Mabey JK, Steffensen SC
• α6 subunit-containing nicotinic receptors mediate low-dose ethanol effects on ventral tegmental area neurons and ethanol reward.
  Addiction biology 2017 Steffensen SC, Shin SI, Nelson AC, Pistorius SS, Williams SB, Woodward TJ, Park HJ, Friend L, Gao M, Gao F, Taylor DH, Foster Olive M, Edwards JG, Sudweeks SN, Buhlman LM, Michael McIntosh J, Wu J
• Mefloquine effects on ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neuron inhibition: a physiologic role for connexin-36 GAP junctions.
  Synapse (New York, N.Y.) 2011 Allison DW, Wilcox RS, Ellefsen KL, Askew CE, Hansen DM, Wilcox JD, Sandoval SS, Eggett DL, Yanagawa Y, Steffensen SC