Daniela DeCristo graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in December 2015 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. As an undergraduate, she worked in Dr. Patrick Sullivan’s psychiatric genetics lab studying tardive dyskinesia susceptibility caused by haloperidol in Collaborative Cross mice to identify genetic predictors of TD and the regulatory impact of specific significant genes found in schizophrenia GWAS using STARR-seq methodology. In the summer of 2015, she participated in the Conte Center Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at the University of Chicago.
In the Berg lab, she has worked as a research technician involved in the NC NEXUS project as a gene curator studying the utility of genetic sequencing used for newborn screening. She has also been a ClinGen Community Curation volunteer coordinator for the Actionability Working Group. Currently, Daniela is a part of the UNC Biocuration Core and ClinGen Cerebral Creatine Deficiency Syndrome Variant Curation Working Group. Daniela is a graduate student in the Genetic Counseling Program at UNC-Greensboro pursuing interests in clinical genetics and patient care. In her free time, Daniela enjoys spending time with friends and family, exploring the outdoors, cooking, playing violin, and long-distance running.
Publications & Presentations:
Laura V. Milko, Julianne M. O’Daniel, Daniela M. DeCristo, Stephanie B. Crowley, Ann Katherine M. Foreman, Kathleen E. Wallace, Zahra Girnary, Natasha T. Strande, Lonna F. Mollison, Arthur S. Aylsworth, Muge Gucsavas-Calikoglu, Neeta Vora, Myra Roche, Bradford C. Powell, Cynthia M. Powell, Jonathan S. Berg. “An age-based classification framework for evaluating and representing genome-scale sequencing results for newborn screening.” The Journal of Pediatrics. March 2019.
Paola Giusti-Rodríguez, James Xenakis, James J. Crowley, Randy J. Nonneman, Daniela M. DeCristo, Allison Ryan, Corey R. Quakenbush, Darla R. Miller, Ginger D. Shaw, Vasyl Zhabotynsky, Patrick F. Sullivan, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Fei Zou. “Antipsychotic behavioral phenotypes in the mouse Collaborative Cross recombinant inbred inter-crosses (RIX).” BioRxiv, 761353. September 2019.
DeCristo D, Rivera-Munoz E, Zeynalzadeh M, Berg J. (2018, April) Restricted Repertoire of ACMG Variant Interpretation Criteria Apply in Screening (Abstract #639)
Poster presented at the 2018 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting on April 12, 2018 in Charlotte, NC.
DeCristo D, Crowley S, Mollison L, Wallace K, Metcalf F, O’Daniel D, Powell C, Berg J. (2017, March) Better Together: Integrating Genetic Analysis with Biochemical Newborn Screening (Abstract #581).
Poster presented at the 2017 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting on March 23, 2017 in Phoenix, AZ
DeCristo DM. (2015, November) Collaborative Cross recombinant inbred inter-crosses (RIX) for the study of the behavioral and structural consequences of chronic antipsychotic treatment.
Presentation at the Fall 2015 Biology Undergraduate Honors Symposium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DeCristo DM, Keedy S, Gibbons R, Youngren T, Nosal E, and Lahey BB. (2015, August) Risk-associations of SNP and VNTR genetic variants to conduct disorder.
Presentation at the Conte Center for Computational Neuropsychiatric Genomics REU Symposium 2015 at the University of Chicago
