Yiping Wang

Identity

·  Special-term Professor  

Education

·   09/2013-07/2016, PhD in Preventive Veterinary Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing,China

·   09/2010-07/2013, M.S. in Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural  Sciences, Beijing, China

·   09/2006-06/2010, B.S. in Veterinary Medicine, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, China

Training and Professional Experience

·  11/2022-now, Special-term Professor, Sichuan Agricultural University College of  Veterinary Medicine, Chengdu, China

·  09/2021-11/2022, Assistant Scientist, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA

·  06/2017-08/2021, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA

·  09/2016-05/2017, Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Research Interests

·  The mechanisms of animal herpesvirus infection and immunity.

·  Development of novel vaccines and antiviral drugs.

Awards and Honors

·   2019, Trainee Travel Awards, the 22nd International Workshop on KSHV and Related Agents, New York, New York, USA

Selected Publications 

·   Wang Y, Feswick A, Apostolou V, Petkov PM, Moser EK, Tibbetts SA. Gammaherpesvirus-mediated repression reveals  EWSR1 to be a negative regulator of B cell responses. PNAS. 2022, 119(32): e2123362119.

·   Wang Y, Ungerleider N, Hoffman BA, Kara M, Farrell PJ, Flemington EK, Lee N, Tibbetts SA. A polymorphism in the Epstein-Barr virus EBER2 noncoding RNA drives in vivo expansion of latently infected B cells. mBio. 2022, 13: e00836-22.

·   Wang Y, Wei Y, Wu H, Feng L, Liu C, Huang L. Specific inhibition of the interaction between pseudorabies virus DNA polymerase subunits UL30 and UL42 by a synthetic peptide. Veterinary Microbiology. 2022, 272: 109517.

·   Wang Y, Tibbetts SA, Krug LT. Conquering the host: determinants of pathogenesis learned from murine gammaherpesvirus 68. Annual Review of Virology. 2021, 8: 349-371.

·   Wang Y, Feldman ER, Bullard WL, Tibbetts SA. A gammaherpesvirus microRNA targets EWSR1 (Ewing Sarcoma breakpoint region 1) in vivo to promote latent infection of germinal center B cells. mBio. 2019, 10: e00996-19.

·   Wang Y*, Mukhopadhyay R*, Roy S, Kapoor A, Su Y-P, Charman SA, Chen G, Wu J, Wang X, Vennerstrom JL,Arav-Boger R. Inhibition of cytomegalovirus replication with extended-half-life synthetic ozonides. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 2019. 63(1): e01735-18.（*co-first author）