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Christina Vyzas (She/her)

Hometown

New Providence, NJ

Undergraduate College

Wesleyan University

Research Interests

Developmental biology, cardiovascular development, congenital heart defects, lymphatics

Publications

• Ramirez A, Vyzas CA, Zhao H, Eng K, Degenhardt K, Astrof S. Buffering Mechanism in Aortic Arch Artery Formation and Congenital Heart Disease. Circ Res. 2024 May 10;134(10):e112-e132. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.123.322767. Epub 2024 Apr 15. PMID: 38618720; PMCID: PMC11081845. Cover Image on Circ Res Col 134, No 10.
• Vatner SF, Zhang J, Vyzas C, Mishra K, Graham RM, Vatner DE. Vascular Stiffness in Aging and Disease. Front Physiol. 2021 Dec 7;12:762437. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.762437. PMID: 34950048; PMCID: PMC8688960.
• Serra KM, Vyzas C, Shehreen S, Chipendo I, Clifford KM, Youngstrom DW, Devoto SH. Vertebral pattern and morphology is determined during embryonic segmentation. Dev Dyn. 2024 Feb;253(2):204-214. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.649. Epub 2023 Sep 9. PMID: 37688793. Cover Image On Dev Dyn Vol 253, Issue 2.
• Narendra H. Pathak and Michael J.F. Barresi, The Zebrafish in Biomedical Research, In American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press, 2020. My images of Alizarin Red stained zebrafish skeletons are shown in Chapter 45 - Zebrafish as a Model to Understand Vertebrate Development, Figure 45.6 Slicing up the segments.
• Drum ZA, Lanno SM, Gregory SM, Shimshak SJ, Ahamed M, Barr W, Bekele B, Biester A, Castro C, Connolly L, DelGaudio N, Humphrey W, Karimi H, Karolczak S, Lawrence TS, McCracken A, Miller-Medzon N, Murphy L, Park C, Park S, Qiu C, Serra K, Snyder G, Strauss A, Tang S, Vyzas C, Coolon JD. Genomics analysis of hexanoic acid exposure in Drosophila species. G3 (Bethesda). 2022 Jan 4;12(1):jkab354. doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab354. PMID: 34718544; PMCID: PMC8727985.

Awards/Grants

• 2024 Abstract, North American Vascular Biology Organization Vascular Biology Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2024
• 2023 The Scholarship in Memory of Bernadette Weiss, M.D. ’85, NJMS
• 2023 Abstract, 2023 Starr Research Forum sponsored by the Association of Women Surgeons, Boston, MA, 21 October 2023
• 2022 Abstract, Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference 2022, Marseilles, France, May 12-14 2022
• 2022 Summer Student Research Program Stipend, NJMS
• 2022 The Loran and Klara Korek and Dominick and Anna Amorosa Endowed Scholarship, NJMS
• 2021 Summer Student Research Program Stipend, NJMS
• 2019 BA/MA Wesleyan Research Fellowship
• 2018 Abstract, 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Portland, OR, 20- 24 July 2018.
• 2018 Honors, Senior Sculpture Thesis, Wesleyan University
• 2017 Wesleyan Scientific Imaging Contest, 3rd place, College of Integrated Science
• 2017 University Fellow for Research in the Sciences Grant, Biology Department, Wesleyan University

Hobbies

Painting, hiking, and running

Email: cav125@njms.rutgers.edu