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 Prof. Ming Zhang University of Georgia, USA |
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| Title: HIV Glycoprotein Reference for Influenza Vaccine Design | |
| Abstract:
N-linked glycosylation is a posttranslational modification that has significantly contributed to the rapid evolution of HIV-1. In particular, enrichment of N-linked glycosylation sites can be found within Envelope variable loops, a region that plays an essential role in HIV pathogenesis and immunogenicity. In this presentation, I will describe some strategies we learned through systematics studies of HIV N-linked glycosylation at both individual and population levels, and results that can be implemented in virus vaccine designs.
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| Biography:
Dr. Ming Zhang is a Tenured Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics with the highest honor from the University of Gottingen, Germany. She has over 15-year experience in Bioinformatics, in particular in HIV, Influenza and HCV, including being a major contributor to the HIV global sequence database during 2002-2008. She has published more than 40 high-impact papers that were cited over 2000 citations. She contributes regularly to16 prestigious bioinformatics and infectious disease journals, such as PLoS Computational Biology, in addition to being the editor for PLoS One and BMC Infectious Diseases, respectively. She leads an interdisciplinary research group, encompassing infectious diseases, epidemiology, mathematic modeling and biostatistics, towards understanding the pathogen diversity along disease transmission and progression, with an ultimate goal to facilitate genomic-based healthcare and treatment. Last but not least, she has been actively contributing to the education of big-data driven health informaticists.
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