Research Training Committee (RTC)
Christina Hueschen
Christina Hueschen is an assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her research focuses on the physical biology of parasites and includes studying how parasitic cells and animals move, penetrate through tissue, and change shape. Christina Hueschen received her Ph.D. from UCSF, where she worked with Sophie Dumont on cytoskeletal organization and mechanics, and did her postdoctoral research in the group of Alex Dunn at Stanford University, where she studied the gliding motility of Toxoplasma gondii.
Ngango Y. Rugema
Ngango graduated from California Baptist University with a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular biology and at Purdue University with a PhD in biochemistry with a focus on structural biology under the guidance of Dr.Angeline Lyon. During his graduates studies, he contributed to the understanding of the regulation of phospholipase c epsilon, a protein involved in cardiomyopathy, and solved its first high resolution X-ray crystallography structure.He currently works for AGC Biologics in Seattle, Washington as a senior scientist where his main role is developing processes for manufacturing therapies against cancer, autoimmune and other diseases in mammalian cell lines.