Gao Lab

11/14/2014: Congratulations to Meilan whose review on SIRT1 and KSHV life cycle is now on line live with Cell Cycle.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/15384101.2014.968431#.VGeHfoeub4g

8/19/2014: Congratulations to former lab member Myung-Shin whose paper on KSHV exploitation of the complement system is now on line live with PLoS Pathogens.

Link to the article

8/7/2014: Our collaboration with Dr. Chun Lu at Nanjing Medical School on the synergistic effect of HIV-1 Nef and KSHV oncogene K1 on angiogenesis has resulted in a new paper in Nucleic Acid Research.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25104021

7/10/2014: Our collaboration with Dr. Ke Lan at Institute Pasteur Shanghai on KSHV LANA Hijacking of BMP-Smad1-Id signaling pathway to promote tumorigenesis has resulted in a new paper in PLoS Pathogens.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25010525 News coverage: http://english.shanghaipasteur.cas.cn/press/pr/201407/t20140713_124365.html http://www.shanghaipasteur.cas.cn/kxyj/kyjz/201407/t20140713_4156528.html

7/9/2014: Dr. Gao won free screens for potential drugs that inhibit or kill KSHV-induced tumors or cancer cells at the USC Choi Family Therapeutic Screening Facility.

USC Choi Family Therapeutic Screening Facility https://news.usc.edu/65085/usc-stem-cell-and-usc-norris-cancer-center-accelerate-drug-discovery/

5/10/2014: Congratulation of Ying whose review on Viral miRNA targeting of bicistronic and polycistronic transcripts has just been accepted by Current Opinion of Virology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24821460

3/26/2014: Congratulations to Meilan and former graduate student Qiuhua whose paper on SIRT1 and KSHV life cycle has just been accepted by Journal of Virology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24672028

2/19/2014: Our collaboration with Dr. Chun Lu at Nanjing Medical School on the regulation of KSHV life cycle by HIV-1 Nef and cellular microRNA hsa-miR-1258 has resulted in a new paper in Journal of Virology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24554664

1/13/2014: Congratulations to Tiffany whose paper on the role of KSHV vCyclin in cellular transformation and tumorigenesis has just been accepted by Cell Cycle.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24419204

12/26/2013: Congratulations to Ying and former graduate student Alie whose paper on the role of KSHV miRNAs in cellular transformation and tumorigenesis has just been accepted by PLoS Pathogens.

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