Christel Bastida

EDUCATION

2005 – 2012: Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin

2004 – 2005: Counseling Program, St. Edward’s University – Austin, Texas

1998 – 2002: B. A., Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

AWARDS

2007 – 2010: Predoctoral Fellowship, Texas Consortium in Behavioral Neuroscience

2010: Behavioral Neuroscience Area of Psychology Department Summer Fellowship

2009: Office of Graduate Studies Graduate Development Travel Award

2007: Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Travel Award

2007: Office of Graduate Studies Graduate Development Travel Award

2005 – 2007: NIH training grant, Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING

My current research interestmolecularly targeted personalized cancer therapy. In particular, I would like to combine molecularly targeted agents withcancer stem cell targeting agentsin the clinic.

2011 –Present: Clinical Research Scientist, The University of Texas MD Anderson

Cancer Center

Principal Investigator: Gerald Falchook, MD, MS

2005 – 2011: Graduate Student, Institute for Neuroscience,

University of Texas at Austin

Neuronal and behavioral adaptations to repeated social stress

Advisor: Yvon Delville, Ph.D.

2004 – 2005: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Psychology,

University of Texas at Austin

5-HT and aggression in juvenile and adult hamsters

Advisor: Yvon Delville, Ph.D.

2004 – 2005: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Psychology,

University of Texas at Austin

Neuronal networks and regional metabolic capacity in socially stressed hamsters

Advisor: Francisco Gonzalez-Lima, Ph.D.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2012: Lecturer, panel participant– Duke University Talent Identification Program & The Health Museum’s Academic Adventures Program: Summer Conference on Research

2012: Lecturer– Duke University Talent Identification Program & The Health Museum’s Academic Adventures Program: Neurologist for a Day

2011: Teaching Assistant – Introduction to Psychology for lower division Psychology majors

2010: Teaching Assistant, Guest Lecturer – Hormones and Behavior for upper division Psychology majors

2010: Teaching Assistant – Behavioral Neuroscience for upper division Psychology majors

2008: Teaching Assistant – Stress for upper division Psychology majors

2007: Teaching Assistant – Statistics for Psychology majors writing laboratory

MENTORING EXPERIENCE

2007: McNair Fellowship Mentor, St. Edward’s University

PUBLICATIONS

Falchook, G.S., Bastida, C.C., Kurzrock, R. Dual EGFR inhibition in combination with anti-VEGF treatment: A phase I clinical trial in colorectal cancer. In preparation.

Bastida, C. C., Jennings, K., Puga, F., and Delville, Y. Social stress and the

development of appetitive and consummatory male sexual behaviors in the

golden hamster. In preparation.

Falchook, G.S., Ordonez, N., Bastida, C.C., Karp, D.D. Effect of the RET inhibitor vandetanib in a patient with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. In press, J Clin Oncol.

Falchook, G.S., Lippman S.M.,Bastida, C.C., Kurzrock, R.(2013). HER2-amplified

salivary duct cancer: regression with dual HER2 inhibition and anti-VEGF

combination treatment. In press, Head Neck.

Falchook, F.S., Moulder, S., Wheler, J., Jiang, Y., Bastida, C.C., Kurzrock, R. (2013). Dual HER2 inhibition in combination with anti-VEGF treatment in HER2-positive breast cancer. In press, Ann Oncol.

Falchook, G.S., Trent, J.C., Heinrich, M.C., Beadling, C., Patterson, J., Bastida,

C.C., Blackman, S.C., R. Kurzrock, R. (2013).BRAF Mutant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: First report of regression with BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib (GSK2118436) and whole exomic sequencing for analysis of acquired resistance.Oncotarget 4(2).

Falchook, G.S., Naing, A. Hong,D.S., Zinner, R., Fu, S., Piha-Paul, S.A.,

Tsimberidou, A.M., Morgan-Linnell, S.K., Jiang, Y., Bastida, C.C., Wheler, J.J., and Kurzrock, R. (2013). Dual EGFR inhibition in combination with anti-VEGF treatment: A phase I clinical trial in non-small cell lung cancer. Oncotarget 4(1).

Falchook, G.S., Janku, F., Tsao, A.S., Bastida, C.C., Stewart, D.J., Kurzrock, R. (2013). Non-small cell lung cancer with HER2 exon 20 mutation: regression with dual HER2 inhibition and anti-VEGF combination treatment. J Thorac Oncology 8(2).

Arendt, D.H., Smith, J.P., Bastida, C.C., Prasad, M.S., Oliver, K.D., Eyster, K.M., Summers, T.R., Delville, Y., Summers, C.H. (2012).Contrasting hippocampal and amygdalar expression of genes related to neural plasticity during escape from social aggression. Physiol Behav 107(5).

Bastida, C.C., Puga, F., and Delville, Y. (2009). Risk assessment and avoidance in juvenile golden hamsters exposed to repeated stress. Horm Behav 55(1).

Puga, F., Barrett, D.W., Bastida, C.C., and Gonzalez-Lima, F. (2007). Functional neural networks underlying latent inhibition in the mouse brain. Neuroimage 38(1).

Taravosh-Lahn, K., Bastida, C., and Delville, Y. (2006). Differential responsiveness to fluoxetine during puberty. Beh Neurosci 120(5).

ABSTRACTS

Bastida, C., Sagum, C., Monical, S., Jennings, S., Delville, Y. Repeated social

stress and the maturation of sexual behavior in male golden hamsters. Abstract

presented at the 40th annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November

2010.

Bastida, C., Sagum, C., Monical, S., and Delville, Y. Social stress and the development of appetitive and consummatory sexual behaviors. Abstract presented at the 14th Annual Meeting for the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. July 2010.

Bastida, C., Puga, F., and Delville, Y. Anxious and defensive behaviors in adolescent hamsters exposed to chronic stress. Abstract presented at the Annual Meeting for the Pavlovian Society. October 2007.

Puga, F., Barrett, D., Bastida, C., and Gonzalez-Lima, F. Functional networks underlying latent inhibition learning in the mouse brain. Abstract presented at the 37th annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November 2007.

Bastida, C., Puga, F., and Delville, Y. Anxious and defensive behaviors in adolescent hamsters exposed to chronic stress. Abstract presented at the 37th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November 2007.

Bastida, C., Puga, F., and Delville, Y. Testing anxiety and defensive behaviors in socially stressed hamsters. Abstract presented at the 11th Annual Meeting for the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. July 2007.

Bastida, C., Wommack, J., Puga, F., Gonzalez-Lima, F., and Delville, Y. Regional brain correlations in adolescent male golden hamsters exposed to chronic social stress. Abstract presented at the 11th Annual Meeting for the University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Neuroscience Symposium. January 2007.

Puga, F., Barrett, D., Bastida, C., and Gonzalez-Lima, F. Metabolic mapping of mouse brain activity in latent inhibition. Abstract presented at the 36th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November 2006.

Bastida, C., Wommack, J., Puga, F., Gonzalez-Lima, F., and Delville, Y. Regional brain correlations in adolescent male golden hamsters exposed to chronic social stress. Abstract presented at the 36th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November 2006.

Taravosh-Lahn, K., Bastida, C., and Delville, Y. Serotonin and the development of agonistic behavior in golden hamsters. Abstract presented at the 35th Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. November 2005.

Taravosh-Lahn, K., Bastida, C., and Delville, Y. Serotonin and the development of agonistic behavior in golden hamsters. Abstract presented at the 9th Annual Meeting for the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology. July 2005.

INVITED TALKS

September 2007 – University of Texas at Austin’s Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Seminar presentation “Behavioral adaptations to chronic social stress”

January 2011 – University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Neuroscience Annual Symposium

MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING EXPERIENCE

Journal of Mammalogy

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Society for Neuroscience

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Pavlovian Society