Areas of Research

MPHRG FACULTY - VIRUSES
Name Department Research Interests
Paul Ahlquist Mol Virology Structure, evolution, and expression of RNA virus genomes
Curtis Brandt MMI Virology; pathogenesis of herpes simplex virus; gene therapy and antiviral drugs
Teresa Compton Oncology Pathogenesis and virology of human cytomegalovirus
John Fleming Neurology Neurotropic coronaviruses
Paul Friesen Biochem Molecular biology of eukaryotic DNA viruses, regulation of gene expression, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and retrotransposons
Yoshi Kawaoka Pathobiol Sci Molecular mechanism of interspecies transmission of virus leading to influenza pandemics in humans; molecular pathogenesis of influenza in poultry and mammals; Ebola virus
Paul Lambert Oncology Regulatory mechanisms employed by papillomaviruses in controlling viral transcription and plasmid DNA replication; Role of papillomaviral and cellular genes in the development of human cervical cancer
Mirek Malkovsky MMI Cellular genes regulating expression of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses; biological role of gamma/delta T cells
Rebecca Montgomery Biochem Molecular mechanism of virus entry into cells, virus regulation of immune response, and viral pathogenesis
Dan Muller Rheumatology Immunology and host defenses
Ann Palmenberg Biochemistry Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses; protein translation, proteolytic processing; RNA synthesis; viral pathogenesis; viral vaccines, vaccine vectors; computer-based sequence analysis
Ronald Schultz Pathobiol Sci Immunology and virology
Stacey Schultz-Cherry MMI Molecular and cellular virology - basic cellular, biochemical, and molecular biology of human influenza virus and astrovirus pathogenesis
Gary Splitter AHABS Immunology of infectious diseases
Robert Striker MMI/Medicine Nucleotide selectivity, error rate, and supramolecular structure of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase
Bill Sugden Oncology Epstein-Barr virus, proliferation and immortalization of human B-lymphocytes
M. Suresh Pathobiol Sci Regulation of T cell proliferation, apoptosis, and memory
David Watkins Pathology Interactions between the immune system and the AIDS virus