Welcome Daniel Bradley to our lab! Daniel completed his doctoral training at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in the John Tavis lab. He studied the identification and characterization of small molecular inhibitors of the RNAseH activity of the hepatitis B virus polymerase and capsid assembly modulators. He will continue his work…
Say hello to Dr. Keith Berggren! Keith successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Epitranscriptomic Modification in Liver Biology and Disease" at his final public oral last Tuesday, with Alex as his doctoral mentor. His work focused on epitranscriptomic modifications, such as N6-methyl-adenosine (m6A) and 5-methyl-cytosine (m5c), their…
The lab is getting additional new faces in the lab for the summer and next academic year! Please meet Mujtuba (Muj) Yousufi, Sreya Sanyal, and Jianche Liu!
Muj is our new undergraduate student joining Fariha and RJ. These three undergraduate students will be working diligently with their mentors to complete their theses.
Sreya is…
Our senior undergraduate students, Heidi Temple and Sydney Mullin, are graduating from Princeton University! We will celebrate their achievements at our yearly summer lab barbecue.
Heidi's thesis is titled "Novel methods for recombinantly producing hepadnaviral relaxed circular and covalently closed circular DNA." Her work focused on…
The newly minted Dr. Stephanie Maya successfully defended her doctoral thesis on "Characterizing the mechanism of hepatitis B and delta virus host tropism in mice" at her final public oral today. Her work focused on elucidating the species-specific differences in HBV infection in order to overcome the restriction barrier towards HBV in mouse…
On April 18, 2024, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its list of 2023 AAAS Fellows, and Alex was elected one of their Medical Sciences Section Fellows!
The AAAS elects distinguished individuals with the lifetime honorific of AAAS Fellow for their scientific excellence and achievement.
Welcome Melina Winkler to our lab! Melina completed her doctoral training at Twincore, the Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research in Hannover, Germany. While there, she studied virus host interactions of different RNA viruses with the main focus on the species tropism of a mouse-adapted hepatitis C virus. She will continue her…
Welcome to Ronald Anglade and Fariha Begum who will be joining our lab to conduct their undergraduate thesis research. They will soon begin hammering away at their junior proposals and collecting data for their senior theses. Alot of interesting data will definitely be on the way!
Yongzhen was honored with an invitation to speak at the Outstanding Young Scientist Seminar at the Blumberg Institute! He gave a talk on all of the research he has conducted here including the generation of the clones from different HBV infectious genotypes and his discovery that marmosets can be used for HBV and woolly monkey HBV infections…
Congratulations to Keith who published his review "The impact of epitranscriptomic modifications on liver disease"! Delve into how RNA modifications affect the liver and how they can be used as prognostic markers for liver disease. Great job Keith!