Research Interests
  • Development of a mucosal vaccines for HIV using the SIV:macaque model for AIDS

  • Pathogenesis and transmission of SIV across mucosal portals of entry

  • Characterization of reservoirs of SIV in chronically infected macaques and development of effective methodologies for therapy

  • Genetic adaptation of SIV among susceptible species


  • Genetic basis of disease resistance in macaques infected with SIV


 
Selected Publications
  1. Bissel SJ, Wang G, Bonneh-Barkay D, Starkey A, Trichel AM, Murphey-Corb M, Wiley CA. Systemic and brain macrophage infection in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Encephalitis.J Virol. 2008 Mar 12; [Epub ahead of print]
  2. Fallert BA, Poveda S, Schaefer TM, Pfeifer ME, Sanghavi SK, Watkins SC, Murphey-Corb MA, Tarwater PM, Kirschner DE, Reinhart TA. Virologic and immunologic events in hilar lymph nodes during simian immunodeficiency virus infection: development of polarized inflammation. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 Jan 1;47(1):16-26.
  3. Taber R, Rajakumar PA, Fuller DH, Trichel AM, Dowling P, Meleason D, Amedee A, Murphey-Corb M.Effects of monotherapy with (R)-9-(2-phosphonylmethoxypropyl)adenine (PMPA) on the evolution of a primary Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) isolate. Virology. 2006 Oct 10;354(1):116-31.
  4. Steckbeck JD, Grieser HJ, Sturgeon T, Taber R, Chow A, Bruno J, Murphy-Corb M, Montelaro RC, Cole KS. Dynamic evolution of antibody populations in a rhesus macaque infected with attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus identified by surface plasmon resonance. J Med Primatol. 2006 Aug;35(4-5):248-60
  5. Bissel SJ, Wang G, Trichel AM, Murphey-Corb M, Wiley CA. Longitudinal analysis of monocyte/macrophage infection in simian immuno-deficiency virus-infected, CD8+ T-cell-depleted macaques that develop lentiviral encephalitis. Am J Pathol. 2006 May;168(5):1553-69.

    Complete Publication Listing
 
 
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University of Pittsburgh
 
   
     
  Michael Anne Murphey-Corb, Ph.D., Professor
Office:  E1252 Biomedical Science Tower
Lab:E1252 Biomedical Science Tower
Phone:412-648-9462
Fax: 412-648-1448
mcorb@pitt.edu
 
Academic Affiliations
  • Adjunct Professor
    Infectious Disease & Microbiology
    GSPH

  • Professor
    Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

  • Director, Primate Research Facility for
    Infectious Diseases

 
Education
  • 1969 B.S. Medical Technology
    Northeast Louisiana University
    Monroe, LA

  • 1969 M.T. ASCP
    Ochsner Foundation Hospital
    New Orleans, LA

  • 1977 M.S. Microbiology & Immunology
    Louisiana State University
    New Orleans, LA

  • 1980 Ph.D. Microbiology & Immunology
    Louisiana State University
    New Orleans, LA

 
Lab Personnel

Research Assistant Professors:
Deb Fuller, Ph.D., Toshi Kodama, DVM, Ph.D.

Research Associates:
Premi Rajakumar, Ph.D., Julia Myaundi, DVM

Lab Technicians:
Heather Michael, Eric Seabright, Brendon Wahlberg, Jenny Che

MVM Graduate Student:
Rachel Taber

Administrative Assistant:
Emily Gress
Phone: 412/967-6591