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After graduating college, I briefly worked in the private industry, but quickly realized that the world of academia was where my heart was.  I went back to the laboratory that I did a BIO199 during school, for which the PI was Dr. Masliah.  Currently in the Rissman lab, I have over 20+ years doing in vivo work studying dementia in the field of Neurosciences.  My focus has been Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but have also studied HIV related dementia and Multiple Systems Atrophy.  I'm looking forward to gaining more knowledge about the complexities of the human brain and disease and hope to someday be part of the scientific team that helps develop and/or tests successful therapies for those afflicted with the disease.

Jazmin is a native San Diegan who loves the beach, her family, and the fur babies. She received her degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, combining her passion for science and animals. Jazmin has work experience from several research institutions in the biomedical hub of La Jolla, such as The Scripps Research Institute, The Salk Institute, and The Burnham Institute. Jazmin joined the team at UC San Diego in May of 2012.

Jazmin’s primary focus is the management of the transgenic mouse models and all in-vivo related projects/designs. She is responsible for writing and maintaining the Animal Use Protocol, and insuring compliance with all IACUC and animal welfare regulations. With the help of the team, Jazmin is also responsible for coordinating, running, and analyzing data from all behavioral experiments. As part of her duties and contributions to the lab, Jazmin independently performs both terminal and survival animal surgical procedures. Surgical procedures include trans-cardiac perfusion, cryo-presevation, and intra-cerebral injections to name a few.

Bahar Salehi is a recent graduate of UC San Diego. She graduated in 2017 with a B.S. degree is Biochemistry and Cell Biology and is currently applying to medical school. She has been a member of the neuroscience department since 2014 under the Masliah and Rissman labs. Bahar's primary responsibilities are with the animal core, but she is also proficient in various aspects of the lab, such as processing human tissue samples for the Biomarker Core, preparing human and mouse brain slides for histopathology, retinal imaging, performing behavioral tests for the animals, and digesting and extracting mouse DNA. She has dedicated much of her time to research in the lab and has subsequently been published on papers with the lab.