John Carvalho
Assistant
Professor
My research focuses on using mammalian techniques, yeast technologies and global profiling tools for the study of reovirus-host cell interaction. Reoviruses are nonenveloped, double-stranded (ds) RNA viruses of the family Reoviridae, which includes the disease pathogens rotavirus and orbivirus, and numerous plant and marine viruses that cause problems for agriculture and the fishing industry. Although nonpathogenic in humans, reovirus infection of mice is associated with disease syndromes. Reoviruses have been used as a model to study viral mechanisms and pathogenesis.
Courses
BIO 320 Cell Biology
BIO 426 Immunology
Additional Information
Some Societal Memberships: American Society for Virology (ASV), European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), Genetics Society of America (GSA) and the Congressional Liaison Committee of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Some Awards and Honors: National Research Service Award Grant (National Institutes of Health); NRSA Infectious Diseases and Basic Biological Mechanisms Training Grant (National Institutes of Health/Harvard Medical School); XXV Annual ASV Postdoctoral Travel Award (American Society for Virology); XXIII Annual ASV Postdoctoral Travel Award (American Society for Virology); Marquis Who’s Who in America/ Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (Marquis Biographical Journals); Membership Award, New York Academy of Sciences; The Cardinal Spellman Award For Potential in Graduate Program in Science (University of Dallas); Summer Medical Scientist and Research Training Program Scholarship (Baylor College of Medicine); Award for Research Excellence in Biomedicine (The Medical University of South Carolina); Summer Biological Research Fellowship (College of Charleston); The John B. O’Hara Chemical Sciences Award (The John B. O’Hara Chemical Sciences Program)
Recent Teaching Appointments: Adjunct Instructor of Medical and Molecular Virology (Harvard College, Cambridge, MA)