Leslie Parent
Leslie J. Parent is an American microbiologist and immunologist currently Professor and Vice Dean[1] of the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University[2] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[3] and American Society for Microbiology.[4]
Education
She earned her M.D. in 1987 at Duke University followed by residency and training at Duke University Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.[2]
Research
Her research involves virology, retrovirus duplicating and biology.[2] Her highest cited paper is "Positionally independent and exchangeable late budding functions of the Rous sarcoma virus and human immunodeficiency virus Gag proteins"[5] cited at 278 times, according to Google Scholar.[6]
Selected publications
- Bewley MC, Reinhart L, Stake MS, Nadaraia-Hoke S, Parent LJ, Flanagan JM. A non-cleavable hexahistidine affinity tag at the carboxyl-terminus of the HIV-1 Pr55Gag polyprotein alters nucleic acid binding properties. Protein Expr Purif. 2017 Feb; 130:137-145. PMID 27721079.
- Kaddis Maldonado RJ, Parent LJ. Orchestrating the Selection and Packaging of Genomic RNA by Retroviruses: An Ensemble of Viral and Host Factors. Viruses. 2016 Sep 20; 8(9). PMID 27657110.
- Rye-McCurdy T, Olson ED, Liu S, Binkley C, Reyes JP, Thompson BR, Flanagan JM, Parent LJ, Musier-Forsyth K. Functional Equivalence of Retroviral MA Domains in Facilitating Psi RNA Binding Specificity by Gag. Viruses. 2016 Sep 19; 8(9). PMID 27657107.
- Stake M, Singh D, Singh G, Marcela Hernandez J, Kaddis Maldonado R, Parent LJ, Boris-Lawrie K. HIV-1 and two avian retroviral 5' untranslated regions bind orthologous human and chicken RNA binding proteins. Virology. 2015 Dec; 486:307-20. PMID 26584240; PMC 4877169 [Available on 12/01/16].
References
- ^ "Meet Dr. Leslie Parent, Penn State Hershey's new vice dean for research". pennstate.edu. August 27, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ a b c "Leslie Parent". psu.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ "Five Penn State Researchers Named AAAS Fellows". pennstate.edu. December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ "Leslie J. Parent". asm.org. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
- ^ L J Parent, R P Bennett, R C Craven, T D Nelle, N K Krishna, J B Bowzard, C B Wilson, B A Puffer, R C Montelaro and J W Wills. J. Virol. September 1995 vol. 69 no. 9 5455-5460
- ^ "Leslie Parent". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 17, 2017.