Upon completion of her PhD in Biochemistry (uOttawa), Julianna joined Dr. Michael Schlossmacher’s team to focus on PD related topics. She has created a mouse model to study the interaction between mutant Gba1 and SNCA in vivo (manuscript is in preparation). In parallel efforts, Julianna and colleagues refined a method for the visualization of the olfactory system in mice. This publication highlights the abundance of a-synuclein within the olfactory epithelium and also showed that Snca protects mice against nasal inoculation with a neurotropic virus and lessens the bacterial load in sepsis (Tomlinson et al., JNT 2017).
Julianna has been supported as co-PI on grants from the MJFF, Weston Brain Institute and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. In her current role as Sr. Research Associate and Scientific Project Manager in the Schlossmacher team, she contributes to project conception, design and implementation, to overseeing graduate students and is leading scientific projects.
