Dr Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: veej@hku.hk
Education
PhD, 2005, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
BSc, 1997; MSc, 1999; MPhil, 2001, University of Madras, India
Research
My research at the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases centers around the epidemiology and evolution of emerging infectious diseases. The main research areas that I am currently working on include:
- Population dynamics of H5N1 viruses in southern China.
- Ecology and evolution of Coronaviruses and the role of wild animals in the transmission of these viruses.
Selected Publications
Nguyen T, Nguyen T, Vijaykrishna D, Webster RG, Guan Y, Peiris JSM, Smith GJD. 2008. Multiple lineages of Influenza A (H5N1) viruses in Vietnam (2006-2007). Emerging Infectious Diseases Mar 2008 [Epub ahead of print]
Cheung CL, Vijaykrishna D, Smith GJD, Fan XH, Zhang JX, Bahl J, Duan L, Huang K, Tai H, Wang J, Poon LLM, Peiris JSM, Chen H & Guan Y. 2007. Establishment of influenza A virus (H6N1) in minor poultry in southern China. J Virol 81:10402-10412.
Dong BQ*, Liu W*, Fan XH*, Vijaykrishna D*, Tang XC, Gao F, Li LF, Li GJ, Zhang JX, Yang LQ, Poon LLM, Zhang SY, Peiris JSM, Smith GJD, Chen H, Y Guan. 2007. Detection of a novel and highly divergent coronavirus from Asian leopard cat and Chinese ferret badger in southern China. J Virol 81:6920-6926.
Vijaykrishna D*, Smith GJD*, Zhang JX, Peiris JSM, Chen H & Guan Y. 2007. Evolutionary insights into the ecology of coronaviruses. J Virol 81:4012-4020.
Smith GJD, Fan XH, Wang J, Li KS, Qin K, Zhang JX, Vijaykrishna D, Cheung CL, Huang K, Rayner JM, Peiris JSM, Chen H, Webster RG & Guan Y. 2006. Emergence and predominance of an H5N1 influenza variant in China. PNAS 103:16936-16941. [Impact Factor: 9.643]
Tang XC, Zhang JX, Zhang SY, Wang P, Fan XH, Li LF, Li G, Dong BQ, Liu W, Cheung CL, Xu KM, Song WJ, Vijaykrishna D, Poon LLM, Peiris JSM, Smith GJD, Chen H & Guan Y. 2006. Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Coronaviruses in Bats from China. J Virol 80:7481-7490.
Dr Bobo Mok
Post-doctoral Fellow
Email: bobomok@hku.hk
Education
Ph.D.in infection biology (2007) at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Research
Virus and Host Interaction
Selected Publications
Mok BW, Ribacke U, Rasti N, Kironde F, Chen Q, Nilsson P, Wahlgren M. Default pathway of var2csa switching and translational repression in Plasmodium falciparum. Plos One (in Press)
Mok BW, Ribacke U, Sherwood E, Wahlgren M. A highly conserved segmental duplication in the subtelomeres of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes varies in copy number. Malar J. 2008 Mar 7;7(1):46
Mok BW, Ribacke U, Winter G, Yip BH, Tan CS, Fernandez V, Chen Q, Nilsson P, Wahlgren M. Comparative transcriptomal analysis of isogenic Plasmodium falciparum clones of distinct antigenic and adhesive phenotypes. Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2007 Feb;151(2):184-92
Donati D, Mok B, Ch?e A, Xu H, Thangarajh M, Glas R, Chen Q, Wahlgren M, Bejarano MT. Increased B cell survival and preferential activation of the memory compartment by a malaria polyclonal B cell activator. J Immunol. 2006 Sep 1;177(5):3035-44.
Mok BW, Yeung WS, Luk JM. Differential expression of gap-junction gene connexin 31 in seminiferous epithelium of rat testes. FEBS Lett. 1999 Jun 25;453(3):243-8