College of Medicine
Tibbetts Lab
Led by Scott Tibbetts · Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
What we study
The lab studies herpesviruses like Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus, focusing on how they interact with the immune system and cause cancer. They use a mouse model to study viral noncoding RNAs and immune evasion.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Mice
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
PROTAC-mediated Degradation of the Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen (LANA) to Target KSHV Malignancies
Researching how to degrade LANA to treat KSHV-related cancers.
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Recent papers, explained
- Cross‐Species Insights Into Gamma Herpesvirus Transcriptomes: Long‐Read and Multi‐Omics Perspectives
2026 · Journal of Medical Virology
Uses long-read sequencing to study herpesvirus transcriptomes and find new gene variants.
- Early-life gammaherpesvirus infection results in an expanded long-term latent reservoir
2026 · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Finds that early-life herpesvirus infection expands long-term latent virus reservoirs in mice.
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- Impaired immune surveillance exposes the germinal center as a niche for gammaherpesvirus-associated B cell lymphomagenesis
2026 · Frontiers in Immunology
Shows how impaired immune surveillance lets herpesviruses cause B-cell lymphomas in mice.
- Maternal diet shapes milk bile acids to regulate neonatal growth through TGR5
2025 · Cell Reports
Shows how maternal diet changes milk bile acids to regulate infant growth and weight.
- The ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 F (UBE2F)-RING-box protein 2 (RBX2)-mediated neddylation of Cullin5 facilitates pseudorabies virus replication
2025 · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
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