Title：Advances in Synthetic Virology

Speaker: Hongying Chen

Time: 4pm, October 10, 2016

Venue: S3119 

Introduction of Speaker:

Professor Hongying Chen, obtained her Bsc. (in 1992) and Ph.D (in 1998) in the major of Animal Physiology and Biochemistry in China Agricultural University；participated in the studies on immunological basis for xenotransplantation as a Postdoc in the Institute of Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998-2000; worked on coronaviruses and HIV-1 as a research fellow in the University of Reading, UK in 2000-2009; moved to NWAFU in 2009. Research area: (1) the interaction of animal viruses with their host cells. We investigate the interactions of PRRSV and AcMNPV proteins with their host cell proteins as well as the protein interactions between the viral proteins, using high-throughput proteomics, Yeast two hybridization, fluorescence localization and co-immunoprecipitation.  (2) Optimization of baculovirus expression vector system via knocking out some nonessential genes and inhibiting the apoptosis of insect cells induced by baculovirus infection. Published more than 30 research papers in journals including J Virol, AIDS, Retrovirology, J proteomics, Plos One and J Gen Virol etc.