Director, The ImmunoPathology Program
Professor, The Ohio State University Medical Center
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University Medical Center
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
Postdoc Fellow, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Johns Hopkins University College of Medicine
BS, Peking University Health Science Center
My lab studies virus-host interaction, viral oncology, and antiviral immunity. We work at the interface of virology, immunology, oncology, genetics, cellular and molecular biology. We identify novel epigenetic and epitranscriptional regulators that control viral evasion and antiviral immune response, particularly for HIV, herpesviruses (EBV, KSHV, HSV-1), HPV, emerging and re-emerging viruses (SARS-CoV-2, influenza, zika), by using modern functional genomic (RNAi, CRISPR/Cas9) and quantitative proteomic (MS, PLATO) approaches. We further dissect the mechanistic functions of these key host regulators using classic cell and/or animal models of viral infection. Newly developed small-molecule compounds targeting epigenetic and epitranscriptional regulators are investigated as the next-generation antiviral reagents and/or immune modulators.
Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Medical Center
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
Postdoc Fellow, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Johns Hopkins University College of Medicine
BS, Purdue University
Epigenetic regulation of tumor immunity for virus-associated tumors (B-cell lymphoma, head neck cancer) , tumor genetics and genomics.
PhD, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
BS, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Lyon, France
Co-mentored with Dr Netty Santoso at Pathology of OSUMC
PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
BS, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai'an, China
PhD, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
MS, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
BS, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China
Co-mentored with Dr Netty Santoso at Pathology of OSUMC
PhD, Jeju National University, Jeju-do, South Korea
BS, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
PhD, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
MS, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, India
BS, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkata, India
PhD, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
MS, Northwest A & F University., Xianyang, China
BS, Northwest A & F University., Xianyang, China
BS, Genetics & Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PhD, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Ohio State University
Ohio State University
Postdoc Fellows:
Dr Jianwen Chen (currently at Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dr Danillo Esposito (currently at Nationwide Children Hospital)
Dr Tsuyoshi Hayashi (currently at National Institute of Infectious Diseases Tokyo)
Dr Huachao Huang (currently at Columbia University Medical Center)
Dr Weili Kong (currently at Gladstone Institutes of UCSF Medical Center)
Dr Ayan Biswas (currently at University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Students:
Abigail Harrison (Rotation, Biophysics Graduate Program)
Zhixan Michelle He (OSU undergraduate student)
Bethany Pepple (Rotation, MCDB Graduate Program)
Nikhil Pradeep (Rotation, Microbiology Graduate Program)
Youngmin Park (PhD student, thesis, currently a postdoc fellow at the Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard Medical School)
Zhenyu Wu (PhD student, thesis, currently a Research Scientist at biotech)
Emily Watters (Undergrad student, Macriobiology major, currently a Master student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Tai-Wei Li (PhD student, thesis, currently a postdoc fellow at the Seattle Children's Hospital of the University of Washington School of Medicine)
Yinchong Wang (PhD student, currently a PhD candidate at OSU MCDB program)
Anushka Ruwanpathirana (PhD student, currently a PhD candidate at OSU BSGP program)
Samiha Kabir (PhD student, currently a PhD candidate at OSU MCDB program)
Maxime Jean (PhD/MD student, thesis, currently a Resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center)
Sydney Simpson (PhD student, currently a PhD candidate at the University of Rochester Medical Center)
Carter Krannitz (Undergraduate Student, Chemistry Pre-Med, Ohio state University)
Michael Dieringer (Undergrad student, currently a medical student at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine)
Nick Osborne (Research intern, currently a medical student at Noetheast Ohio Medical University)
Staffs:
Derek Power (currently at the University of Rochester Medical Center)