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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Nebraska Center for Virology

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The Nebraska Center for Virology Research Program

Our research program addresses pathogenic and therapeutic questions of some the most devastating viral and neuroimmune disorders facing the global community including molecular, epidemiological, and biochemical approaches to address fundamental questions concerning viral replication, latency, assembly and pathogenesis. These projects include the investigation of mechanisms of HIV replication and pathogenesis; and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, prion diseases and HIV-1-associated dementia. Other projects involve chronic and latent infections caused by viruses such as herpes simplex, Epstein-Barr and Kaposi's Sarcoma associated herpesvirus. Investigators are also studying viral host interactions including the mechanism of viral induced cellular transformation.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

» Herpesvirus Anisa Kaenjak Angeletti, PhD
» Mechanisms that control stable replication of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) Peter C. Angeletti, PhD
» Prion Targeting Jason C. Bartz, PhD

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Prion Neuroinvasion

Richard Bessen, PhD

» Protein Structure and Function, Proteomics Pawel Ciborowski, PhD

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HIV Neuropathogenesis

Howard Gendelman, MD

» Viral and cellular factors that regulate HSVE Melissa (Stone) Inman, PhD
» Genome-wide screening of host genes involved in virus-induced neurotoxic signaling using lentiviral siRNA library Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD
Clinton Jones, PhD

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Herpesviruses Latency

Clinton Jones, PhD

» Prion Entry into the Nervous System
Anthony E. Kincaid, PhD
» The Antiviral Role of RNA Interference in Mammals T. Jack Morris, PhD
Feng Qu, PhD

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Protein Nucleic Acid Interactions using FRET

Lawrence Parkhurst,PhD

» RNA Virus Gene Expression Asit K. Pattnaik, PhD

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BBB Transport Systems in HIV-1 Infection

Yuri Persidsky, MD, PhD; 
Tsuneya Ikezu, MD, PhD

» IL-12 expression during innate anti-viral immunity against Theiler’s Virus infection Thomas M. Petro, PhD
» Murine model of HIV-1encephalitis in NOD/SCID mice reconstituted with human lymphocytes Larisa Poluektova, MD, PhD

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Chlorella Viruses Biology

James Van Etten, PhD

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Retroviruses Assembly

Robert Weldon, Jr., PhD

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Retroviruses Pathogenesis and Fitness:Virus and Host Determinants

John West, PhD

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HIV and Herpes Virus Pathogenesis

Charles Wood, PhD

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HIV Neurophysiology

Huangui Xiong, MD, PhD

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Herpes Viral Latency and Interferon Regulatory Factors

Luwen Zhang, PhD

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Chemokines and HIV Dementia

Jialin Zheng, MD