Mariam Gonzalez-Hernandez
e-mail address: gonmaria@umich.edu

Mentor: Christiane Wobus, PhD

Research Description

Human Noroviruses (HuNov) in the family Caliciviridae, cause the majority of all non-bacterial gastroenteritis.  We are interested in a related virus animal model, the Murine Norovirus (MNV-1), to understand the mechanisms of virus entry in the intestinal tractby particularlytrying to find receptors present on the cell surface. I am currently working with a tissue culture model that mimics the intestinal epithelial monolayer of the gastrointestinal tract, to better understand how the virus breaches this barrier. 

Publications

Stephen Cooper, Michelle Paulsen, Mats Ljungman, Dang Vu-Phan, Duyang Kim
and Mariam Gonzalez-Hernandez. Membrane-elution analysis of content of cyclins A, B1 and E during the unperturbed mammalian cell cycle. Cell Division 2007, 2:28 (24 Sep 2007).  

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