College of Veterinary Medicine

Professional Training and Experience

• B.S. (Major: Microbiology; Minor: Electronics Engineering and Information Systems), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
• M.S. (Cell Biology and Immunology), Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
• Ph.D. (Microbiology and Immunology), The Ohio State University
• Postdoctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University

Research Interests

• Regulation of host cell signaling by intracellular bacteria Ehrlichia and Anaplasma
• Type IV secretion substrates of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma
• Entry and release mechanisms of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma
• Computational analysis of Ehrlichia, and Anaplasma, and Neorickettsia genome sequences
• Expression profiling of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma transcriptomes and proteomes