Speaker: Shan-Lu Liu, MD, Ph.D.
演讲人：刘善虑 博士
When: February 28, 2015 (Saturday), from 7:00 pm
时间：2015 年2 月28 日（星期六）晚上七时起
Where: Health Science Building, Room K-450
地点：华盛顿大学医学院K-450 会议室
Note: Free parking during seminar time in UW campus
About speaker: Dr. Shan-Lu Liu is currently an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and an investigator of Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri. He is also an adjunct professor of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University. He received his medical training in China and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington in 2003. He was named as Canada Research Chair in Virology and Gene Therapy at McGill University during 2005-2010. His current research is focused on membrane fusion and cellular entry of enveloped RNA viruses, as well as innate immunity to viral infections. The model viruses that his lab has been studying include HIV, influenza A virus, HCV, and Ebola virus. He will speak on two novel families of cellular factors, i.e., IFITMs (IFN-induced transmembrane proteins) and TIMs (T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain proteins), which broadly inhibit viral infections.
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