Dr. Britt Glaunsinger is a Professor at the departments of Plant and Microbial Biology and Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Arizona (1995), and completed her doctoral degree in Molecular Virology at Baylor College of Medicine (2001). She continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Donald Ganem in the University of California, San Francisco (2001-2006). In 2006, She joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley where she studies strategies viruses use to manipulate gene expression in host cells. Visit her lab website and learn more about Glaunsinger’s research.
Britt Glaunsinger provides an overview of virology and KSHV. She describes how the study of viruses has guided the understanding of many fundamental cellular processes, from gene expression to cancer. (Talk recorded in October 2019)
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