Brunno Caetano is pursuing his graduate studies with Deilson Elgui de Oliveira in Brazil, and is spending one year in the Gewurz lab for collaborative studies of EBV/host interactions in B-cell lytic replication
Stephanie Yiu
Prior to matriculating in the Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Stephanie did research in Alan Chiang’s laboratory on EBV lytic reactivation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Stephanie is pursuing proteomic analyses of EBV host-pathogen interactions and studying a novel innate immune pathway subverted by EBV in newly infected B-cells and cells undergoing lytic replication.
Yuchen Zhang
Yuchen’s graduate studies focused on how host histone chaperones regulate EBV latency in EBV-transformed B-cells. She identified key roles for the CAF1 and HIRA complexes in control of EBV latency. She also characterized epigenetic mechanisms that control EBV latency and reactivation. In separate studies, Yuchen characterized mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 induces folate metabolism to support virus-driven nucleotide biosynthetic demand. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow…
Jin Hua Liang
Jin Hua pursued her graduate research in the Gewurz lab. Jin Hua’s research focused on the regulation of nucleotide metabolism and NF-kB in EBV-transformed B-cells, where she identified key roles for the enzymes CTPS1 and CTPS2 in cytosine nucleotide metabolism in EBV-driven B-cell transformation, published in mBio. She is currently pursuing post-doctoral studies in the Department of Hematology at Nanjing University of Technology
Merrin Leong, PhD
Merrin Leong did his doctoral research at Hong Kong University in the laboratory of Maria Lung, where he studied Epstein-Barr virus infection roles in regulation of host histone modifications. Merring identified that EBV infections induces histone bivalent switches in squameous epithelial cells, and found roles for these epigenetic modifiations in suppression of DNA damage repair genes in a methylation-independent manner.
Eric Burton, PhD
Eric Burton received his PhD from Stonybrook University. Eric’s doctoral research with Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh focused on host pathogen interactions that regulate the EBV lytic cycle. Eric identified that EBV exploits several inflammasome sensors to activate the lytic cycle, in particular the NLRP3 inflammasome. He also identified host repressors important for the maintenance of EBV latency.
Rui Guo, PhD
Rui Guo received his PhD from Kansas State, where his thesis research with Ying Fan focused on procine reproductive and respiratory virus syndrome host/pathogen interactions. He discovered that PRSSV uses nanotubes for intracellular spread, that nanotubes also transfer mitochondria between nearby and infected cells, and that PRSSV RNA persists in germinal centers during persistent infection. Rui pursued multiple projects in the Gewurz lab, including epigenetic…
Kaoru Takasaki
Current Position: Instructor in Pediatric Oncology and Attending Physician, CHOP, University of Pennsylvania
Hannah Greenfeld
Hannah was a technical research assistant in the Gewurz lab for 2 years. She then pursued doctoral studies in the Mullins Laboratory, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Cal Tech