Christine Hsieh, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Rheumatology
Research Biologist, Director of VA FACS Core Facility
Principal Investigator
Medicine
[email protected]
+1 415 221-4810 ext. 23683

Christine Hsieh graduated with a B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA.  She received her Ph.D. in Immunology from Stanford University where she studied NK cells in liver transplantation with Dr. Sheri M. Krams.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF where she studied microglia and macrophages during neurodegeneration with Dr. William E. Seaman.  She researches molecular and cellular immunology in traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration, neuroinflammation, tissue injury, and most recently COVID-19.

Publications: 

CCR2 deficiency alters activation of microglia subsets in traumatic brain injury.

Cell Reports

Somebang K, Rudolph J, Imhof I, Li L, Niemi EC, Shigenaga J, Tran H, Gill TM, Lo I, Zabel BA, Schmajuk G, Wipke BT, Gyoneva S, Jandreski L, Craft M, Benedetto G, Plowey ED, Charo I, Campbell J, Ye CJ, Panter SS, Nakamura MC, Eckalbar W, Hsieh CL

The effect of type 2 diabetes on CD36 expression and the uptake of oxLDL: Diabetes affects CD36 and oxLDL uptake.

Experimental neurology

Kanoke A, Nishijima Y, Ljungberg M, Omodaka S, Yang SY, Wong S, Rabiller G, Tominaga T, Hsieh CL, Liu J

Age-related changes to macrophages are detrimental to fracture healing in mice.

Aging cell

Clark D, Brazina S, Yang F, Hu D, Hsieh CL, Niemi EC, Miclau T, Nakamura MC, Marcucio R

Heterogeneity in HIV and cellular transcription profiles in cell line models of latent and productive infection: implications for HIV latency.

Retrovirology

Telwatte S, Morón-López S, Aran D, Kim P, Hsieh C, Joshi S, Montano M, Greene WC, Butte AJ, Wong JK, Yukl SA

Galectin-3, a novel endogenous TREM2 ligand, detrimentally regulates inflammatory response in Alzheimer's disease.

Acta Neuropathologica

Boza-Serrano A, Ruiz R, Sanchez-Varo R, García-Revilla J, Yang Y, Jimenez-Ferrer I, Paulus A, Wennström M, Vilalta A, Allendorf D, Davila JC, Stegmayr J, Jiménez S, Roca-Ceballos MA, Navarro-Garrido V, Swanberg M, Hsieh CL, Real LM, Englund E, Linse S, Leffler H, Nilsson UJ, Brown GC, Gutierrez A, Vitorica J, Venero JL, Deierborg T

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-2 expression in the brain is required for maximal phagocytic activity and improved neurological outcomes following experimental stroke.

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Kurisu K, Zheng Z, Kim JY, Shi J, Kanoke A, Liu J, Hsieh CL, Yenari MA

ADAM17 Is The Main Sheddase For The Generation Of Human Triggering Receptor Expressed In Myeloid Cells (hTREM2) Ectodomain And Cleaves TREM2 After Histidine 157.

bioRxiv

Dominik Feuerbach, Patrick Schindler, Carmen Barske, Stefanie Joller, Edwige Beng-Louka, Katie A. Worringer, Sravya Kommineni, Ajamete Kaykas, Daniel J. Ho, Chaoyang Ye, Karl Welzenbach, Gaelle Elain, Laurent Klein, Irena Brzak, Anis K. Mir, Christopher J. Faraday, Reiner Aichholz, Simone Popp, Nathalie George, Christine L. Hsieh, Mary C. Nakamura, Ulf Neumann

MicroRNA-383 located in frequently deleted chromosomal locus 8p22 regulates CD44 in prostate cancer.

Oncogene

Bucay N, Sekhon K, Yang T, Majid S, Shahryari V, Hsieh C, Mitsui Y, Deng G, Tabatabai ZL, Yamamura S, Calin GA, Dahiya R, Tanaka Y, Saini S

Brain trauma elicits non-canonical macrophage activation states.

Journal of neuroinflammation

Kim CC, Nakamura MC, Hsieh CL

Progranulin Deficiency Promotes Circuit-Specific Synaptic Pruning by Microglia via Complement Activation.

Cell

Lui H, Zhang J, Makinson SR, Cahill MK, Kelley KW, Huang HY, Shang Y, Oldham MC, Martens LH, Gao F, Coppola G, Sloan SA, Hsieh CL, Kim CC, Bigio EH, Weintraub S, Mesulam MM, Rademakers R, Mackenzie IR, Seeley WW, Karydas A, Miller BL, Borroni B, Ghidoni R, Farese RV, Paz JT, Barres BA, Huang EJ

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) deficiency attenuates phagocytic activities of microglia and exacerbates ischemic damage in experimental stroke.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Kawabori M, Kacimi R, Kauppinen T, Calosing C, Kim JY, Hsieh CL, Nakamura MC, Yenari MA

CCR2 deficiency impairs macrophage infiltration and improves cognitive function after traumatic brain injury.

Journal of neurotrauma

Hsieh CL, Niemi EC, Wang SH, Lee CC, Bingham D, Zhang J, Cozen ML, Charo I, Huang EJ, Liu J, Nakamura MC

Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells-2 Correlates to Hypothermic Neuroprotection in Ischemic Stroke.

Therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management

Kawabori M, Hokari M, Zheng Z, Kim JY, Calosing C, Hsieh CL, Nakamura MC, Yenari MA

Traumatic brain injury induces macrophage subsets in the brain.

European journal of immunology

Hsieh CL, Kim CC, Ryba BE, Niemi EC, Bando JK, Locksley RM, Liu J, Nakamura MC, Seaman WE

A role for TREM2 ligands in the phagocytosis of apoptotic neuronal cells by microglia.

Journal of neurochemistry

Hsieh CL, Koike M, Spusta SC, Niemi EC, Yenari M, Nakamura MC, Seaman WE

NKp30 is a functional activation receptor on a subset of rat natural killer cells.

European journal of immunology

Hsieh CL, Nagasaki K, Martinez OM, Krams SM

IFN-gamma, produced by NK cells that infiltrate liver allografts early after transplantation, links the innate and adaptive immune responses.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Obara H, Nagasaki K, Hsieh CL, Ogura Y, Esquivel CO, Martinez OM, Krams SM

Identification, cloning, and characterization of a novel rat natural killer receptor, RNKP30: a molecule expressed in liver allografts.

Transplantation

Hsieh CL, Ogura Y, Obara H, Ali UA, Rodriguez GM, Nepomuceno RR, Martinez OM, Krams SM

Targeted gene replacement of a ferredoxin gene in Trichomonas vaginalis does not lead to metronidazole resistance.

Molecular microbiology

Land KM, Delgadillo-Correa MG, Tachezy J, Vanacova S, Hsieh CL, Sutak R, Johnson PJ

Unprocessed Toxoplasma ROP1 is effectively targeted and secreted into the nascent parasitophorous vacuole.

Molecular and biochemical parasitology

Bradley PJ, Hsieh CL, Boothroyd JC

NK cells and transplantation.

Transplant immunology

Hsieh CL, Obara H, Ogura Y, Martinez OM, Krams SM