Toedebusch Lab Alumni
Graduate Students | Postdoctoral Scholars | Students Training in Advanced Research Summer Scholars | Veterinary Student Researchers | Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences Scholars | Undergraduate Research Scholars | Young Scholars Program
Graduate Students
Daniela Jimenez, PhD
Graduated August 2025
Current Position: UC Davis Veterinary Medical Student (VM3), Veterinary Scientist Training Program
Dissertation Title: ‘Exploring the immune infiltrate in naturally occurring canine glioma and in preclinical rodent models following therapeutic targeting’
Postdoctoral Scholars
Wayne Tsang, DVM
T32 Comparative Oncology Fellow 2024-2025
Current Position: Veterinary Surgery Resident, LeadER Animal Specialty Hospital
Project: ‘Canine placenta-derived NK cells as a glioma-targeting therapeutic’
Fernanda Catacci-Guimaraes, DVM
2023-2024
Current Position:
Project: ‘Creation of a canine glioma genomic and immunologic atlas’
Nina Wei, DVM
T32 Comparative Oncology Fellow 2022-2023
Current Position: UC Davis Veterinary Neurology & Neurosurgery Resident
Project: ‘Characterization of the Olfactomedin-like 3 heterozygous mouse: a putative model for glioblatoma’.
Students Training in Advanced Research Summer Scholars
Kulani Simafranca-Narte
Summer 2023
Project: ‘Characterizing the cellular topography and the corresponding immunobiologic molecular signatures of the myeloid cell populations within the canine brain’.
Blaire Consales, DVM
Summer 2021
Project: ‘Characterization of microglia in canine brain-metastatic melanoma’.
Lynsey Petersen, DVM
Summer 2021, co-mentored with Dr. Luke Wittenburg
Project: ‘Cerebrospinal fluid proteomic profiling using mass-spectrometry for biomarker discovery in canine non-infectious meningoencephalitis’.
Laila Joseph, DVM
Summer 2020
Project: ‘Determination of the effect of microglia-derived olfactomedin-like 3 on mouse brain endothelial cell angiogenesis ‘.
Aurelie Bastian, DVM
Summer 2019, Boehringer Ingelheim Scholar
Project: ‘Exploring the contribution of the glycoprotein olfactomedin-like 3 to the malignant glioma phenotype’.
Veterinary Student Researchers
- Jennie Furth-Jacobus, DVM 2022-2023
- Megan Gragg, DVM 2022-2023
- Kulani Simafranca-Narte, DVM 2022-2023
- Nicole Vinson, DVM 2019-2020
- Ori Nagasaka, DVM 2018-2019
Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences Scholars
Tatiana Pechnikova
2022-2024
Project: ‘Uncovering the Mechanism(s) of Olfactamedin-like-3 Induced Malignancy in Glioblastoma’.
Shafee Sayed-Quadri
2022
Eshetu Debebe
2020-2022
Project: ‘Olfactomedin-like 3 (OLFML3) Promotes the Glioma Cell Malignant Phenotype’.
Undergraduate Research Scholars
- David Wei 2024-2025
- Yurim Lee 2022-2023
- Colby Corcoran 2019-2020
- Tony Vega 2019-2020
Young Scholars Program
Chase Jones, High School Student
Summer 2024