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Terza Brostoff

Terza Brostoff

Assistant Agronomist

Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology


Licenses
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Microbiology
California Veterinary License #22206
Active Research Grants
Principal Investigator, Foundational steps towards a novel feline infectious peritonitis mRNA vaccine: in vitro kinetics, expression, and lipid nanoparticle packaging of feline coronavirus nucleocapsid mRNA, (Principal Investigator), Morris Animal Foundation
Honors and Awards
2010 Students Training in Advanced Research NIH T-35 Scholarship
2010-2017 Veterinary Scientists Training Program
2011 Students Training in Advanced Research NIH T-35 Scholarship
2011-2012 Year-Long Exposure to Advanced Research NIH T-32 Scholarship
2012-2013 Clinical and Translational Science Center NIH T-32 Scholarship
2014 Malcolm Stacey Fellowship, UC Davis
2014 Students Training in Advanced Research NIH T-35 Scholarship
2014 UC Davis Career Exploration Through Internships program
2014 UC Davis Graduate Group in Integrative Pathobiology Colloquium Student Poster Award
2014 American College of Veterinary Pathologists Student Poster Award, Natural Disease category
2014-2015 Valentine Fellowship
2015 Students Training in Advanced Research NIH T-35 Scholarship
2016 Patrick McInturff III Memorial Endowed Scholarship
2016 Dr. Jacob Traum Endowed Scholarship
2016-2017 P.E.O. Scholar Award fellowship for women in science
2017 Quinton R. Rogers - Nestle Purina Scholarship for Achievement in Feline Medicine or Nutrition
2017 R.S. Robertson Scholarship
2020-2023 UCSD Research Training Program for Veterinarians, NIH T-32 Scholarship
Ten Recent Publications

2023
Sariano PA, Mizenko RR, Shirure VS, Brandt AK, Nguyen BB, Nesiri C, Shergill BS, Brostoff T, Rocke DM, Borowsky AD, Carney RP, George SC
Convection and extracellular matrix binding control interstitial transport of extracellular vesicles

2022
Mizenko RR, Brostoff T, Jackson K, Pesavento PA, Carney RP
Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) Are Copurified with Feline Calicivirus, yet EV-Enriched Fractions Remain Infectious

2021
Mizenko RR, Brostoff T, Rojalin T, Koster HJ, Swindell HS, Leiserowitz GS, Wang A, Carney RP
Tetraspanins are unevenly distributed across single extracellular vesicles and bias sensitivity to multiplexed cancer biomarkers

2016
Brostoff T, Pesavento PA, Barker CM, Kenney JL, Dietrich EA, Duggal NK, Bosco-Lauth AM, Brault AC
MicroRNA reduction of neuronal West Nile virus replication attenuates and affords a protective immune response in mice

2016
Pesavento PA, Brostoff T, Church ME, Dela Cruz FN, Woolard KD
Polyomavirus and Naturally Occuring Neuroglial Tumors in Raccoons (Procyon Lotor)

2014
Brostoff T, Dela Cruz FN, Church ME, Woolard KD, Pesavento PA
The raccoon polyomavirus genome and tumor antigen transcription are stable and abundant in neuroglial tumors

2013
Halbherr SJ, Brostoff T, Tippenhauer M, Locher S, Berger Rentsch M, Zimmer G
Vaccination with recombinant RNA replicon particles protects chickens from H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus