Microbiology Graduate Program
Email: shaowen-xu@uiowa.edu
Lab: Richard Roller, PhD
Year Entered Into Program: 2017
Research
Herpesvirus assembly
Education
B.Sc, Microbiology, Grand Valley State University (2013-2017)
Research: Salmonella pathogenesis; Escherichia coli biofilm regulation
Discontinued, Pharmaceutics, Medical College of Soochow University (2011-2013)
Research: Shiraia bambusicola fungal polysaccharide metabolism
Awards
Levitt Center Travel Award, 2019
Virology T32 Training Grant (June 2021- June 2022)
Presentations
“Efficiently Expressing Toxic HSV Proteins in Multiple Cell Lines Using Lentiviral Vectors”, All Iowa Virology Synposium, 2019
“Putative Pathogenicity Island in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium”, ASM 2017 spring meeting Michigan branch, 2017
“Identifying O2-sensing Regulators for E. coli Biofilm Formation via Transposon Mutagenesis”, West Michigan Regional Undergraduate Science (WMRUGS) Research Conference, 2016