Lab News & Events
October 6, 2009: Yuan speaks at the Steven Degar Memorial Lecture in
Molecular Virology.
Yuan speaks on “Merkel Cell Polyomavirus: A new cause for human
cancer” at the annual Steven Degar Memorial Lecture in Molecular
Virology at Yale University in Hew Haven, CT.
October 6, 2009: Mamie receives a Merit Award for her abstract.
Mamie receives a Merit Award for her abstract based on her work in the ChangMoore Tumor Viology Lab over the summer through the Summer Research Program.
August 27, 2009:
Yuan speaks on “MCV, a viral cause for Merkel cell cacinoma in the
immunosuppressed and aging populations”
Yuan speaks on “MCV, a viral cause for Merkel cell cacinoma in the
immunosuppressed and aging populations” at the University of
California, San Francisco.
August 26, 2009:
Pat speaks on “Clinical knowledge guides basic
science on the viral cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma.”
Pat speaks on “Clinical knowledge guides basic science on the viral
cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma” at the University of California, San
Francisco.
August 25, 2009:
Yuan speaks at the American Cancer Society
Postdoctoral Fellows Syposium in Seattle, WA.
June 19, 2009: Reety is a UPCI Scientific Retreat Poster Winner
Reety wins the Director's Award for Scientific Excellence getting the 2nd Place Poster Award for Clinical/Translational Cancer Research for her poster on "Merkel cell polyomavirus T antigen expression in human tissues" at the UPCI retreat in Greensburg, PA.
May 8-14, 2009:
Pat speaks on
“Merkel cell polyomavirus: A new cause for human cancer”
May 8-11, 2009:
Pat speaks on “Discovery
of a new human cancer virus by digital transcriptome subraction (DTS)”
April 28, 2009:
Yuan speaks
on “Identification and Characterization of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus”
Yuan speaks on “Identification and Characterization of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus” at the Governor’s
Conference on Effective Partnering in Cancer Research focusing on Human Viruses and Cancer.
April 14, 2009:
Blood test for MCV published
April 14, 2009:
Two new MCV papers are accepted and epublished ahead of print.
Full-text preprints of our articles describing MCV T antigen detection with a new monoclonal antibody “Human merkel cell polyomavirus infection I. MCV T antigen expression in merkel cell carcinoma, lymphoid tissues and lymphoid tumors” and a new serologic test to detect human MCV infection “Human merkel cell polyomavirus infection II. MCV is a common human infection that can be detected by conformational capsid epitope immunoassays” are now available at the International Journal of Cancer website
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121388261/issue.
March 10, 2009:
Yuan speaks on “Primary Characterization of the Merkel Cell Polyomavirus and its role in human neoplasia”
January 31, 2009:
Pat speaks on
“Genomes, Viruses and Cancer”
Pat speaks on “Genomes, Viruses and Cancer: New approaches for discovery of human oncogenic viruses”
at the Glasgow Virology Workship in Glasgow, Scotland.
January 29. 2009:
Pat and Yuan receive
13th Annual Carnegie Life Sciences Award.
The award ceremony will take place May 8, 2009.
January 16, 2009:
Yuan speaks on
“Identification and Primary Characterization of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus”
Yuan speaks on “Identification and Primary Characterization of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus” in Heidelberg,
Germany at Highlights in Tumor Virology, the scientific symposium
on the occasion of the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Harald zur Hausen.
January 9, 2009:
Masa speaks at the
Workshop on Merkel Cell Carcinoma Basic, Epidemiologic, Translational and Clinical Research
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2008 News Archive
December 4, 2008:
Harvard University’s
Virology Seminar Series
November 16-19, 2008:
7th Annual AACR
International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research
November 13, 2008:
Research Matters
Conference
Pat speaks at the
Research Matters Conference on AIDS related malignancies as the Keynote speaker.
November 12-13, 2008:
10th Annual Salzman
Memorial Award and Symposium in Virology
November 10, 2008:
Pat and Yuan receive a $250,000 research grant from the Al Copeland Foundation.
October 6-7, 2008:
11th International
Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Acquired Immunodeficiencies
October 6, 2008:
CM Lab welcomes new student
Anna Guastafierro joins the CM lab
as a predoctoral student from the Program in Integrative Molecular Biology. Anna received her BS degree
from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. She is a native of Germany.
October 2, 2008:
CM Lab receives NIH grant to develop blood tests to detect MCV infection
October 1, 2008:
AIDS Reagent Repository makes CM lab MCV genomic clones available
MCV genome fragments covering MCV350 are available to scientists from the AIDSReagent.org
at the following links:
pcDNA.MCV350
pCR.MCV350
Efforts are ongoing to make MKL-1 cell lines and additional genomic clones available through
a repository and we will try to keep you posted on where you can find them.
September 26-27, 2008:
International Committee
on Viral Oncology Research
September 23, 2008:
Masa, Huichen and Hyun-Jin publish study identifying cancer-specific signature mutations in
Merkel cell polyomavirus
In a free text paper published in
PNAS these lab members show that mutations in the helicase domain of Tag are consistently
found in virus from tumors but not in virus derived from healthy tissues. The mutation probably
arises to prevent the integrated virus DNA from replicating, which would cause a DNA break
response in the tumor cells. This paper also describes the first cell lines infected with the
virus.
September 22, 2008:
Pat and Yuan receive American Cancer Society Research Professorships
August 1, 2008:
The Al Copeland
Memorial Boat Race “Big Bash”
April 13, 2008:
New addition
Huichen and Meishu welcome their daughter, Sophia Chun Feng, born 4/13/2008 — 6 lbs and 19.75 inches
January 18, 2008:
The New York Times Reports on Drs. Chang & MooreÕs Discovery of Merkel Cell Polyomavirus
