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Blanca Lupiani
Assistant Professor
Veterinary Pathobiology

Education:
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; B.S. 1988
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain; M.S. 1989
University of Maryland, College of Veterinary Medicine, College Park, MD; Ph.D. 1994

Research Description:
Molecular mechanisms of viral pathogenesis focused mainly on avian leukosis and avian influenza viruses; development of diagnostic tests for avian influenza and other important poultry viruses; identification of important immunogenic epitopes of avian influenza virus and development of recombinant avian influenza virus vaccines.

Representative Publications:

Reddy, S.M.*, Lupiani, B.*, Silva, R., Lee, L., and Witter R. 2002. Rescue of a pathogenic Marek's disease virus using overlapping cosmid DNAs: use of pp38 mutant to validate the technology for the study of gene function.
Procceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 99(10):7054-7059. (* Contributed equally to this
work.)

Gingerich, E., Porter, R.E., Lupiani, B..and Fadly, A.M. 2002. Diagnosis of subgroup J-Like Avian Leukosis Virus
Infection and Tumors in Commercial White Egg Laying Flocks. Avian Diseases 46: 745-748.

Lupiani, B., Lee L.F. and Reddy S.M. 2001. Protein-coding content of the sequence of Marek’s disease virus type 1. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 255: 159-190.

Hunt, H.D., Lupiani, B., Miller, M.M., Gimeno, I., Lee, L.F. and Parcells, M.S. 2001. Marek’s disease virus down
regulates surface expression of MHC (B complex) class I (BF) glycoproteins during active but not latent
infection of chicken cells. Virology 282: 198-205.

 

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