Strebel Research Group

Dr. Strebel received his Ph.D. in microbiology in 1985 from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. After postdoctoral research in Germany on foot-and-mouth disease protein processing and maturation, he joined the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology (LMM) in 1986 as a postdoctoral fellow to work on molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 replication. He was awarded tenure in 1998 and, since 2000, has been chief of the Viral Biochemistry Section within LMM.

Helena Fabryova completed her MSc in Molecular Biology in 2013 at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia) and her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2017 in the Genetics and Virology program at the Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). She studied a wide array of topics including host-virus relationships of endogenous retroviruses and GC rich chicken genes. She joined the...

Ms. Kao obtained a master’s degree in Microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined the Strebel lab in 2001 and has since contributed to much of Dr. Strebel’s experimental research.

Rosa Mallorson is from Portland, Oregon. She majored in Biochemistry and Environmental Science at Colorado College and Oregon State University in 2020. She has been a Post-bac IRTA fellow in the Strebel lab since August 2020. Her project examines the regulation of host cell gene expression in response to HIV-1 infection. In particular, she focuses on the regulation of mannose receptor expression...

Eri Miyagi earned her Ph.D. in the medical sciences in 1998 from The University of Yamanashi in Japan. Her thesis work involved studying molecular differences of transcription factors in different types of thyroid cancers using patient samples. Dr. Miyagi has a long-standing interest in molecular and cell biology and her interests gradually shifted towards more basic mechanisms of host defense. Dr...

Hideki Saito earned his Ph.D. in medical sciences in 2018 from The Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Strebel lab in 2019 and is studying host-factors involved in HIV-1 replication and characterizing the role of Vpx in HIV-2 replication in the Strebel lab.