There are many different researchers at Cornell who work on Virology, or in virus-related areas. The list below will help you to find out more about what we are doing.
Hector Aguilar-Carreno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Viral entry, viral egress, immune responses and vaccine development, antivirals.
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Joel Baines, VMD, Ph.D.
Professor of Virology
Baker Institute for Animal Health and Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Herpesvirus replication and processes that occur within cells.
Gary Blissard, Ph.D.
Professor Adjunct
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Baculovirus biology and pathology, viral envelope protein structure and function, and gene expression in virus infected cells.
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Sarah Caddy, MA VetMB Ph.D. DACVM MRCVS
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
and the Baker Institute for Animal Health
College of Veterinary Medicine
Antibody:virus interactions and immunity, caliciviruses and rotaviruses.
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Joshua Chappie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Medicine
Structural biology, biochemistry, and cell biology to dissect the mechanisms of complex molecular machines.
Susan Daniel, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical Engineering
Delivery of virus genomes across host membranes.
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Diego Diel, DVM, MDS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Vaccine development, host-parasite interaction, pathogenesis, viral entry.
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Cedric Feschotte, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Mobile genetic elements i.e. transposons and endogenous viruses.
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Laura Goodman, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor
Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
Pathogen discovery and surveillance, tick-borne diseases, antimicrobial resistance.
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Laura Harrington, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Entomology
Mosquito vectors impacting human health today: those that transmit dengue, yellow fever and West Nile viruses and those that transmit malaria parasites.
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Michelle Heck, Ph.D. Research Molecular Biologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service / Section of Plant Pathology & Plant- Microbe Biology / School of Integrative Plant Science / Cornell University. Studying the interactions between plant viruses and their invertebrate vectors of transmission.
Courtney Murdock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, mosquito-borne disease transmission, mosquito-pathogen interactions, experimental and field studies, statistical and mechanistic modeling.
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John Parker, BVMS, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Virology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
How viruses take control of cellular metabolism and biosynthesis
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Colin Parrish, Ph.D.
John M. Olin Professor Virology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Viral host ranges; antibody immunity; virus evolution; and structures of viruses, receptors, and antibodies
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Keith Perry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
Research on plant viruses and their aphid vector transmission and the diagnostic detection of plant viruses and other pathogens
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Luis Schang, MV, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Virology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Viral entry and egress and the epigenetic regulation of viral replication and pathogenesis
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Gerline van der Walle, DVM, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Viral pathogenesis of hepatitis-associated viruses, equine herpesviruses, and feline herpesvirus type 1; basic physiology of adult stem cells as well as their potential in regenerative medicine
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Gary Whittaker, Ph.D.
Professor of Virology
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Structures and functions of viral envelope proteins
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Volker Vogt, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
Assembly of retroviruses, using primarily Rous sarcoma virus, the prototypic avian retrovirus, as a model system
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