Profiles
Nicole Sunseri
Graduate Student, Microbiology
BS Microbiology, University of California, Davis
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Faculty Mentor: Nathaniel Landau, Ph.D.
Ever since she read Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone at age 11, Nicole has been fascinated with infectious diseases, especially those of viral origin. So, needless to say, working on HIV in the Landau lab is quite fitting for her. Besides spending time in the lab, Nicole also enjoys running around the city, playing fetch with her cat Kiwi, and watching tons of bad TV.
Thesis
VPX facilitates SIV infection of monocytes and monocytoid cell lines by counteracting an inducible restriction factor
Research Interests
Host-pathogen interactions
Selected Publications
Gramberg T, Sunseri N, Landau NR. Evidence for an Activation Domain at the Amino-terminus of SIV Vpx. J Virol. Forthcoming.
Gramberg T, Sunseri N, Landau NR. Accessories to the crime: recent advances in HIV accessory protein biology (review). Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2009 Feb;6(1):36-42. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 19149995.
Kalanetra KM, Joye SB, Sunseri NR, Nelson DC. Novel vacuolate sulfur bacteria from the Gulf of Mexico reproduce by reductive division in three dimensions. Environ Microbiol. 2005 Sep;7(9):1451-60. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16104867. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00832.x.
