Virus Infection and Tumorigenesis

Dr. Xiaobo Zhang is a Professor from the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University. He was selected for the “National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars” in 2005 and “National New Century Millions of Talents Program” in 2006. He is a standing committee member for the Marine Biotechnology branch of the Chinese Society for Oceanography and a committee member for the Marine Microbiology branch of the Chinese Society for Microbiology. Prof. Zhang’s research focuses on mechanisms of marine hosts’ response to virus infection and tumorigenesis. He has published more than 110 research articles in these fields.

• Overview of virus infection and tumorigenesis.- Marine viruses.- Marine invertebrate stress responses to virus infection.- The roles of microRNAs in antiviral immunity of marine invertebrates.- Marine microbe stress responses to bacteriophage infection.- Roles of microbial metabolites in bacteriophage-microbe interactions.- Tumorigenesis and metabolism disorder.- Effects of microRNAs from marine invertebrate stress responses to virus infection on tumorigenesis.- Anti-tumor activities of secondary metabolites from marine microbe stress responses to virus infection.