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The work in my laboratory focuses on the molecular biology of human papillomaviruses (HPV), small DNA viruses that exhibit epithelial tropism. Certain types of HPV are considered the causative agents of cervical cancer and are also associated with cancers of the anus, oropharynx and esophagus.聽 My lab is interested in defining mechanisms that regulate the productive phase of the HPV life cycle, which is restricted to differentiating epithelia and includes viral genome amplification, late gene expression and virion production. Using various methods of epithelial differentiation, we are studying how HPV proteins modulate cell signaling pathways, including the DNA damage response and apoptosis, to facilitate viral replication, which in turn contributes to viral pathogenesis and possibly transformation. I will be accepting rotation students beginning in the winter of 2010.,The work in my laboratory focuses on the molecular biology of human papillomaviruses (HPV), small DNA viruses that exhibit epithelial tropism. Certain types of HPV are considered the causative agents of cervical cancer and are also associated with cancers of the anus, oropharynx and esophagus.聽 My lab is interested in defining mechanisms that regulate the productive phase of the HPV life cycle, which is restricted to differentiating epithelia and includes viral genome amplification, late gene expression and virion production. Using various methods of epithelial differentiation, we are studying how HPV proteins modulate cell signaling pathways, including the DNA damage response and apoptosis, to facilitate viral replication, which in turn contributes to viral pathogenesis and possibly transformation. I will be accepting rotation students beginning in the winter of 2010.