Yueting Zheng, Ph.D.

Yueting Zheng

B.S., 2005, Wuhan University, China
M.S., 2008, Wuhan University, China
Ph.D., 2015, Stony Brook University, NY

Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hearing

Current Position

Director of Cell and Gene Therapy, Synthego Corporation.

Select Honors and Awards

Abrahams Award for outstanding scientific achievement by a graduate student, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, 2015.

Teresa Haire Memorial Award, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, 2011 and 2013.

Recipient of Distinguished Travel Award, Stony Brook University, 2014.

Sigma Xi Travel Award, Stony Brook University, 2014.

Select Publications

Snaider, S., Zheng, Y., and Hearing, P. (2022). Rb-E2F-HDAC repressor complexes control interferon-induced repression of adenovirus to promote persistent infection. Journal of Virology 96(11): e0044222.

Ostapchuk, P., Suomalainen, M., Zheng, Y., Boucke, K., Greber, U.F., and Hearing, P. (2017). The adenovirus major core protein VII is dispensable for virion assembly but is essential for lytic infection. PLoS Pathogens 13(6): e1006455.

Zheng Y ,Stamminger T, Hearing P. (2016). E2F/Rb family proteins mediate interferon induced repression of adenovirus immediate early transcription to promote persistent viral infection. PLoS Pathogens 12(1): e1005415.

Vink EI, Zheng Y, Yeasmin R, Stamminger T, Krug LT, Hearing P. (2015). Impact of Adenovirus E4-ORF3 oligomerization and protein localization on cellular gene expression. Viruses 13;7(5):2428-49. doi: 10.3390/v7052428.

Zheng Y, Hearing P. (2014). The use of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) to study the binding of viral proteins to the adenovirus genome in vivo. Methods Mol Biol 1089:79-87. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-679-5_6.

Cheng BY, Zhi J, Santana A, Khan S, Salinas E, Forrest JC, Zheng Y, et al. Tiled microarray identification of novel viral transcript structures and distinct transcriptional profiles during two modes of productive murine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection. Journal of Virology 86(8):4340-57. doi: 10.1128/JVI.05892-11.

Select Oral Presentations

Invited oral presentation at the 11th International Adenovirus Meeting, San Diego, CA (2015)