Thomas Shenk, Ph.D.

Seventh Winford P. Larson Lecturer

Thomas Shenk, Ph.D.
James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences
and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University

Human Cytomegalovirus Triggers and
Then Blocks an Innate Antiviral Response

Monday, September 29, 2003, 12:00 noon
Coffman Memorial Union

Dr. Thomas Shenk, who is also the current president of the American Society for Microbiology, is a recipient of the American Society for Microbiology's Eli Lilly Award, the NIH Rowe Award, an American Cancer Society Professorship and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigatorship. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Institute of Medicine, and was a past president of the American Society for Virology, chair of the NIH Virology Study Section, a member of the Board of Trustees at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and editor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Virology.  Dr. Shenk's laboratory is interested in defining the functions of viral genes in human cytomegalovirus replication and pathogenesis.