Editorial Board Member - JIID

Mohammad Ayoub Mir
Assistant ProfessorSchool of Medicine
University of Kansas
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Mohammad Ayoub did masters in Biochemistry from the University of Kashmir, India. He received PhD degree in Biophysics from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Department of Atomic Energy of India. And then joined the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , as a post doctoral fellow in Virology. After his post doctoral training, he joined the University of Kansas Medical Science as an Assistant professor on tenure track. He enjoy research in the field of virology in general and more interested in negative strand RNA viruses. He love teaching both the medical and graduate students at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The replication of negative strand RNA viruses with an emphasis on hantaviruses. In addition, he also interested in antiviral therapeutics and drug design.
Following are the specific research areas:
- Cap-snatching mechanism of transcription initiation
- How viruses hijack the host translation machinery for efficient synthesis of viral proteins
- Autophagic regulation of viral glycoprotein expression during virus infection
- Antiviral therapeutics and drug design
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School of Medicine
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Daniel Lacorazza
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Mario P. S. Chin
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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Huatao Guo
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
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Janet Liversidge
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Frank Portugal
Department of Biology
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Henrique Serezani
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Daniel Lacorazza
Departments of Pathology and Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
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