Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D., Principal Investigator (click to view c.v.)
Name | Years | Position | Project |
Esther Francisco | 2007- | Ph.D. student | Function of protein 3A in rhinovirus infection |
Angela Rasmussen, Esther Francisco (front row), Juliet Morrison, Vincent Racaniello, and Jennifer Drahos. Angela and Juliet have moved on to postdoctoral fellowships, and Jennifer is working at a consulting firm.
Name | Years | Position | Project | Current Position |
Nicola La Monica, Ph.D. | 1983-1987 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Molecular Studies of Poliovirus Neurovirulence in Mice | Senior Investigator Merck Rome, Italy |
Cathy Mendelsohn, Ph.D. | 1984-1989 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Isolation of Molecular Clones Encoding Human Poliovirus Receptors | Associate Professor, Columbia University |
Eric Moss, Ph.D. | 1985-1990 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Structural Determinants of Virulence in Poliovirus | Associate Professor University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ |
Robert O'Neill, Ph.D. | 1985-1991 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Translational Control in Poliovirus-Infected Cells | Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics |
Mary Morrison, Ph.D. | 1987-1993 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Murine Homolog of the Poliovirus Receptor (PVR): Molecular Cloning, Expression, and Mapping of Poliovirus-Receptor Interactions | Assistant Professor Lycoming College |
Ruibao Ren, Ph.D. | 1988-1992 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Development and Characterization of a Transgenic Mouse
Model for Poliomyelitis Download thesis (3.8 MB pdf file) |
Associate Professor Brandeis University |
Elizabeth Colston, M.D., Ph.D. | 1989-1994 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Genetic Determinants of the Poliovirus-Receptor Interaction | |
Michael Bouchard, Ph.D. | 1989-1997 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: A Mouse Model of Poliovirus Neurovirulence and Human Poliovirus Receptor Function | Assistant Professor Drexel University College of Medicine |
Suhua Zhang, Ph.D. | 1991-1997 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Studies on Enterovirus Pathogenesis Using Transgenic Mice and Virus Receptor Transformed Cell Lines | Marketing Manager, US Ellence/Aromasin Team, Pfizer Inc |
Alan Dove, Ph.D. | 1991-1998 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: The Behavior of Wild-Type and Mutant Poliovirus at Low Temperatures | Freelance science writer |
Sa Liao, Ph.D. | 1992-1998 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Adaptation of Poliovirus to Variant Cell Receptors | Attorney Morgan Lewis & Buckius |
Yanzhang Dong, Ph.D. | 1992-1998 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: The Cellular Function of mph, a Member of the Poliovirus Receptor Gene Family, and its Role in Spermatogenesis | Anesthesiologist St. Anthony Medical Center, Crown Pt., IN |
Yi Lin, M.D., Ph.D. | 1994-1999 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Identification of Poliovirus Capsid Residues Involved in Receptor Interactions with Chimeric Pvr-Mph Receptor | |
Brian McDermott, Ph.D. | 1995-2001 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Poliovirus-Receptor Interaction: Kinetics and Visualization Download thesis (3.1MB pdf file) |
Assistant Professor Case Western Reserve University |
Melissa Stewart Kim, Ph.D. | 1998-2003 | Ph.D. Student | Thesis title: Cell killing by enterovirus 70: Receptor interaction and VP4-mediated event determine the lytic nature of infection | Manager, Competitive Intelligence Genentech |
Steven Kauder, Ph.D. | 1999- 2004 | Ph.D. Student | Poliovirus Organ Tropism and Attenuation are not Determined by Organ-Specific Internal Ribosome Entry | Postdoctoral scientist, Laboratory of Eric Verdin, UCSF |
Julie R Harris, Ph.D. | 1999- 2005 | Ph.D. Student | Characterization of host range variants of rhinoviruses and the identification of host cell proteins involved in viral replication | Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC |
Amy Rosenfeld, Ph.D. | 1999 - 2005 | Ph.D. student | Cell proteins required for IRES function | Postdoctoral scientist, Laboratory of Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University |
Juliet Morrison, Ph.D. | 2004 - 2009 | Ph.D. student | Poliovirus interferon resistance | Postdoctoral scientist, Laboratory of Adolfa Garcia-Sastre, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine |
Angela Rasmussen, Ph.D. | 2004 - 2009 | Ph.D. student | Mouse model for rhinovirus infection | Postdoctoral scientist, Laboratory of Michael Katze, University of Washington |
Jennifer Drahos, Ph.D. | 2006 - 2009 | Ph.D. student | Antagonism of the innate immune response by rhinovirus | Senior Research Analyst, Advisory Board Co, Washington DC |
Gerardo Kaplan, Ph.D. | 1983-1985 1987-1991 |
Postdoctoral | Construction and Characterization of Poliovirus Subgenomic Replicons; Isolation of HeLa Cell Lines that Do Not Express PVR; Isolation of Poliovirus Mutants Resistant to Soluble PVR | Chief, Laboratory of Hepatitis, CBER, Food and Drug Administration |
Marion Freistadt, Ph.D. | 1988-1991 | Postdoctoral | Expression and Mutagenesis of PVR | Associate Professor Tulane University |
Michael Shepley, M.D., Ph.D. | 1991-1994 | Postdoctoral | A Monoclonal Antibody Against CD44 Blocks Poliovirus Attachment to PVR | |
Ornella Flore, Ph.D. | 1993-1995 | Postdoctoral | Isolation of Thermostable Poliovirus Mutants | Assistant Professor New York University |
Juan Salas-Benito, M.D. | 1998-2000 | Postdoctoral | Poliovirus Axonal Transport | Escuela Nacional de Medicina y Homeopatía del Instituto Politénico Nacional, Mexico City |
Scott Hughes, Ph.D. | 1997-2004 | Postdoctoral | Mouse model for echovirus infection | Rutgers University |
The Ph.D. thesis is a scholarly summary of years of work, and may often contain interesting unpublished information. Nevertheless, few Ph.D. theses are ever seen by individuals outside of the institution in which the work was done.
To date, seventeen students have written Ph.D. theses in this laboratory. I hope to eventually post all of my students' theses in the previous table.
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