At the yearly IHII/McLaughlin Colloquium at UTMB I was named a James W. McLaughlin Travel Awardee for my poster presentation, Development of a STAT2 knockout hamster model for wild-type Marburg virus, work under preparation for a manuscript in 2018.

None of this work would be possible without collaborators and coauthors.

Jinxin Mio², Birte Kalveram¹, Terry Juelich¹, Jennifer K. Smith¹, David Perez¹, Lihong Zhang¹, Jonna L.B. Westover², Arnaud Van Wettere², Brian B. Gowen², Zhongde Wang^2,*, Alexander N. Freiberg^1,3,4*

¹Department of Pathology, ³Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, ⁴Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

²Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA

 

I look forward to using this funding to present further exemplary work from our group in the future.

It has been a good 2017 in the Freiberg Lab with several new publications, listed below.

The Host E3-Ubiquitin Ligase TRIM6 Ubiquitinates the Ebola Virus VP35 Protein and Promotes Virus Replication.

Bharaj P, Atkins C, Luthra P, Giraldo MI, Dawes BE, Miorin L, Johnson JR, Krogan NJ, Basler CF, Freiberg AN, Rajsbaum R.

J Virol. 2017 Aug 24;91(18). pii: e00833-17. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00833-17. Print 2017 Sep 15.

Contribution of Human Lung Parenchyma and Leukocyte Influx to Oxidative Stress and Immune System-Mediated Pathology following Nipah Virus Infection.

Escaffre O, Saito TB, Juelich TL, Ikegami T, Smith JK, Perez DD, Atkins C, Levine CB, Huante MB, Nusbaum RJ, Endsley JJ, Freiberg AN, Rockx B.

J Virol. 2017 Jul 12;91(15). pii: e00275-17. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00275-17. Print 2017 Aug 1.