Molecular Virology
The department has a broad-reaching program in virology covering viral infections of animals and humans. Research involves basic mechanisms of infection and propagation, the induction of disease, and the biology of viral infections in farm animals, wildlife and humans. Viral infections studied include avian flu, avian and equine herpes viruses, canine parvovirus, reovirus and the retroviruses of fish.
Related: Cornell Virology Program
Faculty
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, PhD , Associate Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Interactions between enveloped viruses and their host cells, with emphasis on emerging viruses
Margaret Bynoe, PhD, Professor of Immunology
Research Interest: The molecular basis of antigen induced immune suppression and the modulation of the innate immune system response in immunity against cancer; the role of adenosine in immune and central nervous system barrier regulation
James Casey, PhD, Associate Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Eukaryotic gene regulation, oncogenic transformation, viral replication, viral pathogenesis, toxicology
R
odman Getchell, PhD, Assistant Research Professor
Research Interest: Molecular diagnostics and emerging diseases of fish; Target animal safety studies for new aquaculture therapeutants and chemicals
J
ohn Parker, BVMS, PhD, Associate Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology of mammalian orthoreovirus-host cell interactions. Use of reoviruses as oncotherapeutic agents. Role of virus-receptor interactions and entry on virulence of feline calicivirus
C
olin Parrish, PhD, John M. Olin Professor of Virology at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Structure and function of canine parvovirus, crystallography, virus assembly, mechanism of host cell invasion
Luis Schang, PhD, Professor of Virology and Director of Baker Institute
Research Interest: Chemical virology to study viral entry, gene expression, epigenetics, replication, and pathogenesis while discovering new opportunities for antiviral development
G
erlinde Van de Walle, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor of Viral Pathogenesis at Baker Institute for Animal Health
Research Interest: Virus-natural host models to study viral pathogenesis; adult stem cell biology
G
ary Whittaker, PhD, Professor of Virology
Research Interest: Endocytosis of influenza virus, structure-function studies on influenza HA, entry of coronaviruses and arenaviruses into host cells, viral pathogenesis, viral-bacterial co-infections