Research Interests:

• Host restriction to viral infection and viral countermeasures
• Viral cell-to-cell transmission
• Innate/adaptive immunity and sensing to viral infection
• Mechanisms of viral membrane fusion and entry
• Cell signaling, viral oncogenes, and human lung cancer
• Model viruses of study – HIV, Ebola virus, SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A virus, Zika virus, hepatitis C virus, and oncogenic sheep retroviruses