Professor

Focus

Research

• Virus replication: We use Tombus viruses, small model RNA viruses of plants, to identify the viral and host players in replication and to unravel the mechanism of virus replication.
• Virus recombination: To understand the mechanism of virus evolution

Teaching

• PPA 671: Advanced Plant Virology

Employment Highlights

• Professor, University of Kentucky, 2007 to present
• Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 2003-2007
• Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1999-2003
• Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, 1996-1998
• Research Associate, Northern Illinois Universtiy, 1990-1995
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bari, Italy, 1990 

Awards, Recognition, Service

2008 to present

• Prestigious Paper Award, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2016
• Bobby Pass Excellence in Grantmanship Award, 2013
• Smith fellow lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
• Breakthrough paper on virus replication (Wang, and Nagy, P. D.) was selected in the “SPOTLIGHT” by Journal of Virology, the leading journal in the field of virology, 2009