About this episode
Host: Vincent Racaniello
Guest: Blossom Damania
Vincent speaks with Blossom about her laboratory's research on Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, including how it transforms cells, the switch between lytic and latent replication, and its interaction with the innate immune system of the host.
Links for this episode
- Damania Laboratory
- Modulation of cGAS-STING by KSHV (PNAS)
- KSHV vIRF1 interacts with ISG15 pathway member (J Virol)
- KSHV NLR homolog inhibits inflammasome (Science)
- KSHV inhibition of PI3K and mTOR (Blood)
- KSHV confers survival advantage to endothelial cells (Cancer Res)
- UNC Global Oncology Program
- Blossom on Twitter
- Video of this episode - view at YouTube
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