Chad was a postdoc in the lab and is now continuing his postdoctoral training in Dr. Moriah Szpara’s lab at Penn State.

Project Description:  

I will be examining the antiviral response and RNAi.

Biography:

B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Pennsylvania State University, 2007

Ph.D. Microbiology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014

Selected Publications:

Kuny, C.V., Chinchilla, K., Culbertson, M.R., Kalejta, R.F., Cyclin-Dependent Kinase-like Function is Shared by the Beta- and Gamma- Subset of the Conserved Herpesvirus Protein Kinases, PLoS Pathogens. 2010 Sep9;6(9):e1001092.

Meng Q, Hagemeier, S.R., Kuny, C.V., Kalejta, R.F., Kenney, S.C.,  Simian virus T/t antigens and lamin A/C small interfering RNA rescue the phenotype of an Epstein-Barr virus protein kinase (BGLF4) mutant, J. Virol. 2010 May;84(9):4524-33. 

Kuny, C.V., Kalejta, R.F., “HCMV can procure deoxyribonucleotides for viral DNA replication in the absence of retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation” Manuscript in final revision in Journal of Virology.

“When I'm not in the lab, you'll most likely find me in the yard with my dogs or exploring Austin.”