Jesse Summers, Ph.D.
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of New Mexico HSC
915 Camino de Salud NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
 
Office: CRTC 319
Tel: (505) 272-8896
Fax: (505) 272-6029
E-mail: jsummer@unm.edu

Keywords: hepatitis B virus, virus replication and pathogensis

Research Interests
Molecular biology of virus infections, viral replication, viral pathogenesis, oncogenic and persistent viruses, hepatitis B virus and related animal viruses.

Recent Publications
Yang, W., and Summers, J. 1999. Integration of hepadnaviral DNA in infected liver: Evidence for a linear precursor. J. Virol. 73: Dec. issue.

Schultz, U., Summers, J., Staeheli, P. and F.V. Chisari. 1999. Elimination of DHBV RNA-containing capsids in duck interferon-a treated hepatocytes. J. Virol. 73:5459-5465.

Zhang, Y-Y, and Summers, J. 1999. Enrichment of a precore-minus mutant in mixed infections with Duck Hepatitis B Virus. J. Virol. 73: 3616-3622..

Lenhoff, R.L., Luscombe, C.A, and Summers, J. 1999. Acute liver injury following infection with a cytopathic duck hepatitis B virus. Hepatology 29:563-571.

Lenhoff, R.L., Luscombe, C.A., and Summers, J. 1998. Competition in vivo between a cytopathic variant and a wild type duck hepatitis B virus. Virology 251:85-96.

Yang, W., and Summers, J. 1998. Infection of ducklings with virus particles containing linear double-stranded duck hepatitis B virus DNA: Illegitimate replication and reversion. J. Virol. 72:8710-8717.