Profiles in "Viruses" Expertise Area

  • Varsani is a molecular virologist who works across ecosystems from plants to animals and from the tropics to polar regions.
  • Grant McFadden directs the Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy (BCIVV) at ASU. The McFadden lab studies how poxviruses that cause immunosuppression interact with the host immune system.
  • James studies the role of Z-RNA in necroptosis, the pathogenesis of MPox virus, and supports the development of poxvirus platform vaccines in the laboratory of Bertram Jacobs.
  • Ian Hogue is a virologist who studies how alpha herpesviruses, including human Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1), infects the nervous system.
  • My current work is creating a peripheral neuron synaptogenesis model in order to better examine the mechanisms of Herpes Simplex Virus exocytosis from synapses.
  • Anna Cunningham is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Director of Teaching & Learning in the School of Math & Natural Sciences, and the Co-Director of Teaching, Innovation, & Excellence in the New College.
  • Upham is an eco-evolutionary biologist with core interests in how species ecologies have diversified through time and across the tree of life. He studies the phylogenetic ecology of wild mammals, especially desert rodents.