Lab Members

Current Lab Members

	Jia Guo - Research Assistant Professor jguo3@gmu.edu Research Interest: Mapping the signaling pathways triggered by chemokines and HIV-1 in resting CD4 T cells and macrophages
	Mark Spear - PhD Student mspear2@gmu.edu Research Interest: The role of Arp2/3 in HIV nuclear migration. Characterization of a Luciferase-driven reporter cell line for neutralizing antibody and inhibitor screening.
	Beatrix Meltzer - PhD Student bmeltze1@gmu.edu Research Interest: Regulation of HIV-1 preintegration transcription by viral protein Tat and cellular transcription factors Nf-kappa B and Sp1
	Fei Yi - PhD Student fyi@gmu.edu Research Interest: Viral protein function on HIV infection; relationship between cortical actin and HIV-1 infection on human blood CD4 T cells
	Sarah Pierson - PhD Student sllpierson@gmail.com
	Zheng Zhou - PhD Student zzhou6@masonlive.gmu.edu
	Elaine Liang - MS Student phf126@gmail.com Research Interest: The effect of mutations in the V3 loop of the M-tropic YU2 gp120 on viral entry and tropism switch (R5- to X4-tropism). Additionally, the effect of these mutations on gp120 signaling through CCR5 and CXCR4 in resting T cells.
	Souvonik Adhya - MS Student sadhya@masonlive.gmu.edu
	Taylor Goad - MS Student tgoad@masonlive.gmu.edu Research Interest: Characterization of the mechanism of action of a small molecule HIV inhibitor.
	Joy Deng - MS Student jdeng4@gmu.edu Research Interest: Anti-HIV drug screening. Mechanism study of anti-HIV small molecule inhibitors
Past Lab Members	Dong Yang Yu, Technician Amy Turner, MS Todd Hawley, PhD Clinton Enos, MS Manish Dasyani Subashini Iyer, PhD Weifeng Wang, PhD Alyson Yoder, PhD Jeremy Kelly, PhD Liane Agulto, MS Jessica Young, MS Dong Li, Postdoc Yanfang Zheng, Postdoc Sophia Huff, Technician