Emma Gunderson

Project Manager
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Gunderson.
[email protected]
490 Illinois Street, Rm 3228
UCSF Box 0613
San Francisco, CA 94158
United States

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UCSF Profiles

Affiliations

School committees and service

Office of Research Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism Oversight Committee, 2023-present, University of California San Francisco
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Advisory Board, 2023-present, University of California San Francisco

What I do

I serve as the department’s Project Manager. My work includes supporting research efforts for various labs and faculty in the Clinical Pharmacy Department. I have experience supporting research that spans bench to bedside and a knack for adapting to new projects.

Professional background

Degrees

MSc, Global Health, University of California San Francisco
BA, Anthropology, Chico State University

Training and professional development

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California San Francisco, 2021

Research keywords

  • Rifampin
  • Brugia malayi
  • Filaricides
  • Trypanosoma cruzi
  • Gerbillinae
  • Microfilariae
  • Antibodies, Protozoan
  • Symbiosis
  • Wolbachia
  • Serologic Tests
  • Brugia pahangi
  • Filariasis
  • Onchocerciasis
  • Chagas Disease
  • Onchocerca

Publications

Sampognaro PJ, Arya S, Knudsen GM, Gunderson EL, Sandoval-Perez A, Hodul M, Bowles K, Craik CS, Jacobson MP, Kao AW. Correction: Mutations in α-synuclein, TDP-43 and tau prolong protein half-life through diminished degradation by lysosomal proteases. Mol Neurodegener. 2023 May 30; 18(1):34.
Sampognaro PJ, Arya S, Knudsen GM, Gunderson EL, Sandoval-Perez A, Hodul M, Bowles K, Craik CS, Jacobson MP, Kao AW. Mutations in α-synuclein, TDP-43 and tau prolong protein half-life through diminished degradation by lysosomal proteases. Mol Neurodegener. 2023 05 02; 18(1):29.
Cortopassi WA, Gunderson E, Annunciato Y, Silva AES, Dos Santos Ferreira A, Garcia Teles CB, Pimentel AS, Ramamoorthi R, Gazarini ML, Meneghetti MR, Guido RVC, Pereira DB, Jacobson MP, Krettli AU, Caroline C Aguiar A. Fighting Plasmodium chloroquine resistance with acetylenic chloroquine analogues. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2022 Oct 31; 20:121-128.
Garrido Ruiz D, Sandoval-Perez A, Rangarajan AV, Gunderson EL, Jacobson MP. Cysteine Oxidation in Proteins: Structure, Biophysics, and Simulation. Biochemistry. 2022 Oct 18; 61(20):2165-2176.
Gunderson EL, Bryant C, Bulman CA, Fischer C, Luo M, Vogel I, Lim KC, Jawahar S, Tricoche N, Voronin D, Corbo C, Ayiseh RB, Manfo FPT, Mbah GE, Cho-Ngwa F, Beerntsen B, Renslo AR, Lustigman S, Sakanari JA. Pyrvinium Pamoate and Structural Analogs Are Early Macrofilaricide Leads. Pharmaceuticals (Basel). 2022 Feb 02; 15(2).
Kelly EA, Bulman CA, Gunderson EL, Irish AM, Townsend RL, Sakanari JA, Stramer SL, Bern C, Whitman JD. Comparative Performance of Latest-Generation and FDA-Cleared Serology Tests for the Diagnosis of Chagas Disease. J Clin Microbiol. 2021 05 19; 59(6).
Bulman CA, Chappell L, Gunderson E, Vogel I, Beerntsen B, Slatko BE, Sullivan W, Sakanari JA. The Eagle effect in the Wolbachia-worm symbiosis. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Feb 24; 14(1):118.
Gunderson E, Bulman C, Luo M, Sakanari J. In vitro screening methods for parasites: the wMicroTracker & the WormAssay. MicroPubl Biol. 2020 Jul 20; 2020.
Gunderson EL, Vogel I, Chappell L, Bulman CA, Lim KC, Luo M, Whitman JD, Franklin C, Choi YJ, Lefoulon E, Clark T, Beerntsen B, Slatko B, Mitreva M, Sullivan W, Sakanari JA. The endosymbiont Wolbachia rebounds following antibiotic treatment. PLoS Pathog. 2020 07; 16(7):e1008623.
Hübner MP, Gunderson E, Vogel I, Bulman CA, Lim KC, Koschel M, Ehrens A, Frohberger SJ, Fendler M, Tricoche N, Voronin D, Steven A, Chi V, Bakowski MA, Woods AK, Petrassi HM, McNamara CW, Beerntsen B, Chappell L, Sullivan W, Taylor MJ, Turner JD, Hoerauf A, Lustigman S, Sakanari JA. Short-course quinazoline drug treatments are effective in the Litomosoides sigmodontis and Brugia pahangi jird models. Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist. 2020 04; 12:18-27.
Whitman JD, Bulman CA, Gunderson EL, Irish AM, Townsend RL, Stramer SL, Sakanari JA, Bern C. Chagas Disease Serological Test Performance in U.S. Blood Donor Specimens. J Clin Microbiol. 2019 12; 57(12).