Molecular Attenuation Mechanisms of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus and Design of Vaccines using Reverse Genetics
Qiuhong Wang, PhD
College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
The Ohio State University
Dr. Wang earned her Bachelor of Medicine from Peking University in China, her MS from the University of Tokyo, her PhD from Ohio State University, and completed post-doctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Wang is currently an Associate Professor in the Center for Food Animal Health (CFAH), Department of Animal Sciences, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) & Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine at Ohio State University where the focus of her research program is studying caliciviruses and coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. Her research interests include viral pathogenesis and immunogenicity, diagnosis of viral infections, molecular epidemiology, interspecies transmission of viruses, human norovirus in food safety, and development of vaccines. For enteric viruses, live attenuated vaccines are the most effective vaccines, and they should be safe to the host and unable to revert to virulence or recombine with other field strains to generate new virulent viruses. One of her current projects is to study the molecular attenuation mechanisms of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), a deadly coronavirus of neonatal piglets, and rationally design a safe and effective live attenuated vaccine for it using reverse genetics. Her career goals are to excel excellent research under the concept of One Health, promoting human, animal and environmental health, and mentor students and post-docs who will be the next generation of virologists.
Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.
Meeting URL: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/84212006857?pwd=ZEJaU0pMZkdjTEtuNUxSNnNkZEpJdz09
Meeting ID: 842 1200 6857
Password: 761589
For more information contact the Department of Pathobiology at 217-333-2449, email klp68@illinois.edu.