College of Medicine
Ganaie Lab
Led by Safder Ganaie · Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
What we study
The Ganaie Lab studies how emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses, such as Rift Valley fever virus and related bunyaviruses, get into host cells and cause disease.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Papers
- 3
Recent papers, explained
- Lrp1 is essential for lethal Rift Valley fever hepatic disease in mice
2023 · Science Advances
Tests whether removing LRP1 in mice reduces Rift Valley fever virus liver damage.
- Rift Valley Fever Virus Infects the Posterior Segment of the Eye and Induces Inflammation in a Rat Model of Ocular Disease
2022 · Journal of Virology
Finds that Rift Valley fever virus infects the eye and causes inflammation in rats.
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- Ubiquitin variants potently inhibit SARS-CoV-2 PLpro and viral replication via a novel site distal to the protease active site
2022 · PLoS Pathogens
Discovers that ubiquitin variants block SARS-CoV-2 PLpro and viral replication.
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