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Category: Latest News

Jan 2024

1/9/2024

Our paper on the role of the host cell stress transcription factor, c-Jun, in HSV-1 reactivation has been published in Journal of Virology (read more here).  While there are multiple…

Dec 2023

1/9/2024

Congratulations to Sara Dochnal on very successfully defending her PhD. Throughout her graduate studies, Sara has developed a novel model of HSV-1 latency and reactivation using a recombinant "Stayput-GFP" virus.…

July 2023

8/23/2023

Anna gave a talk at the International DEEP-DV Summer School 2023 in Hamburg and got to hear about some really amazing science being performed as part of the DEEP-DV consortium…

July 2023

8/23/2023

Sara Dochnal gave a spotlight talk at her first in-person International Herpesvirus Workshop in Missoula, Montana. Plus she was awarded a Merit Award. The lab is super proud of all…

May 2023

8/23/2023

The first PhD graduation for the Cliffe lab. Congratulations to Dr. Sean Cuddy!!!!

May 2023

8/23/2023

Congratulations to Patryk Krakowiak on passing his PhD qualifying exam!  

April 2023

8/23/2023

Congratulations to Sean Cuddy on very successfully defending his thesis on "Innate Immune Activation in Support of Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Reactivation from Latency"  

July 2022

8/23/2023

Congratulations to Sara Dochnal and Abigail Whitford on both being awarded the UVA Wagner Fellowship!

May 2022

6/28/2022

Graduate Student Sara Dochnal publishes her study on a novel in vitro model of HSV latency and demonstrates the requirement for DLK in "Phase I" viral gene expression. Check it…

May 2022

6/28/2022

Our new study from graduate student Abigail Whitford on mechanisms of HSV reactivation from latently infected mice and role for host protein DLK published in Journal of Virology.