Professional Experience:

August 2000 – present

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern University, Baton Rouge , LA.

August 1999-present Southern University- University of Texas Medical Branch ARCH Program
August 1995 – August 2000 Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern University, Baton Rouge , LA.
August 1988 – August 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso , TX. , USA .
July 1987 – December 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow (Temporary), Department of Pathology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , NC .

September 1984 – June 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Research Center , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , NC .

October 1983 – June 1984

Postdoctorate Research Associate for Dr. E.P. Cohen, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

August 1981

January 1983: Grace M. Showalter Research Assistant for Dr. Howard Edenberg, Biochemistry Department, School of Medicine , Indiana University, Indianapolis , IN.

August 1978

August 1981: Associate Instructor in the Biochemistry Department, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis , IN.

August 1977 - August 1978

Graduate Student and Research Assistant for Dr. Wayne E. Criss, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Oncology , Associate Director for Research, Howard University Cancer Research Center, Washington.

Areas Of Specialization:

My Ph.D. training is in biochemistry and molecular biology, with a minor in pharmacology. I also have a Master's degree in biochemistry. In my Ph.D. thesis project, I worked with simian virus type 40, a tumor virus, for 4 years. This area of investigation utilized the SV40 virus as a model to understand the biochemistry and molecular biology of host cell enzymes that may play a role in SV40 as well as mammalian DNA replication. My postdoctoral training was in tumor virology at a cancer research center, where most of the work centered on investigating proto-oncogene and tumor suppressor gene expression in HCMV transformed and control cell lines. I also worked with protein kinases (especially protein kinase NII), and their association with human cytomegalovirus mediated transformation process. I have worked with human cytomegalovirus for 20 years and I have taught virology for 16 years. My current research interests involve the investigation of the biochemistry and molecular biology of viral-cellular interactions that lead to the understanding of human cytomegalovirus pathogenesis and oncogenesis. Current studies focus on the role of p53 in human cytomegalovirus infection and oncogenic transformation processes, as well as on the toxic effects of combined human cytomegalovirus and environmental chemicals exposure in human health.

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