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	Liwu Li, Ph. D. Principle Investigator - (540) 231-1433 lwli@vt.edu Liwu received his Ph.D from Univ. of Michigan in 1996, and did his post-doc training with Jack Dixon till 1999. He had been an Assistant and Associate Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine from 1999 till 2005. Liwu is now serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Immunology, and on the NIH study section of innate immunity and inflammation. He currently still holds an adjunct Professor position at Wake Forest Medical School .
Research Staff
	Urmila Maitra , Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin Selected publication: Maitra U, Seo J, Lozano MM, Dudley JP (2006) Differentiation-induced cleavage of Cutl1/CDP generates a novel dominant-negative isoform that regulates mammary gene expression. Mol Cell Biol . 26: 7466-7468.
	E. V. Paez-Espinosa, M.D., Ph.D. Selected publication: Perello M, Friedman T, Paez-Espinosa V, Shen X, Stuart RC, Nillni EA: "Thyroid Hormones Selectively Regulate the Post-translational Processing of ProThyrotropin Releasing Hormone (ProTRH) in the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Hypothalamus", Endocrinology 147 (6): 2705-16, 2006. Paez-Espinosa E.V., Rocha E.M., Velloso L.A., Saad M.J.A: “Regulation of insulin-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of Sch and Shc/Grb2 in liver, muscle and adipose tissue of epinephrine- and streptozotocin- treated rats”. Endocrine, 14: 295-302; 2001.
	Sarah Davis, B.S. Clemson Universtiy
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	Lorna Ringwood, B.S. Wake Forest University Selected publication: Ringwood L, Li L (2008)The involvement of the interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinases (IRAKs) in cellular signaling networks controlling inflammation. Cytokine. 42: 1-7. Shiva S, Sack MN, Greer JJ, Duranski M, Ringwood LA, Burwell L, Wang X, Macarthur PH, Shoja A, Raghavachari N, Calvert JW, Brooks PS, Lefer DJ, Gladwin MT (2007) Nitrite augments tolerance to ischemia/reperfusion injury via the modulation of mitochondrial electron transfer. J Exp Med.204: 2089-2102 .
	Lu Gan, M.D. SiChuan Univeristy, China Selected publication: Xie Q, Gan L, Wang J, Wilson I, Li L (2007) Loss of the innate immunity negative regulator IRAK-M leads to enhanced host immune defense against tumor growth. Mol Immunol. 44(14):3453-61.
	Michael Surace, B.S. James Madison University Selected publication: Surace M, Li L (2007) Gene-Specific Control of Inflammation by TLR-induced Chromatin Modifications. Cell Science Vol4, No2
	Tamisha Vaughan, B.S. Johnson Smith Univeristy Selected publication:
	Trevor Glaros, B.S. Clemson University Selected publication:
	Youjia Fang, B.S. Xiaman University, China Selected publication:
	Neeraj Singh, B.S.
	Samantha Baglin, B.S., D.V.M., Virginia Tech
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