Research in the Ganem laboratory explores the molecular mechanisms of the replication of human viral pathogens and the biology and pathogenesis of their resulting diseases. Current projects focus on (i) Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) and its causative herpesvirus, KSHV; and (ii) the search for novel viral agents in acute and chronic human diseases suspected to have an infectious etiology.

Principal Investigator

  • Don Ganem

    Current Lab Members

  • Michael Armanini, Lab Manager
  • Priya Bellare, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Sabine Bisson, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Sanjay Chandriani, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Amy Kistler, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Horng-Ru Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Alexis Madrid, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Jinjong Myoung, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Yiyang Xu, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Joe Ziegelbauer, Postdoctoral Fellow

    Recent Lab "Graduates"

  • Claudia Grossman, Scientific Grants Review Administrator, University of California
  • Andrew Dufresne, UC Berkeley School of Law
  • Chris Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Texas, Austin
  • Craig McCormick , Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Dalhousie University, Newfoundland, Canada
  • Britt Glaunsinger, Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Sciences, UC Berkeley
  • Patrick Tang, Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Anne-Laure Page , Staff Epidemiologist, Epicentre, Paris
  • Jill Bechtel, Staff Scientist, Genelabs, Inc.
  • David Sanchez, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Los Angeles
  • Yuying Liang, Adjust Assistant Professor of Pathology, Emory University
  • YT Liu, Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
  • Adam Grundhoff, Group Leader, Heinrich-Pette Institute (HPI), Hamburg, Germany
  • Jody Baron, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco
  • Laurent Coscoy, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
  • Andy Polson, Staff Scientist, Genentech
  • Jessica Kirshner, Staff Scientist, Synta Pharmaceuticals, Boston
  • Michael Lagunoff, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
  • David Lukac, Assistant Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark)
  • Rolf Renee, Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Florida
  • Dirk Dittmer, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina
  • Dean Kedes, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia


    Recent Summer Undergraduate Students
    These students were part of the UCSF Summer Research Training Program

    Tiffany Williams, Summer 2005
    Leonard Chavez, Summer 2004
    Kandace West, Summer 2002
    Joshua Hvidding, Summer 2001
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