Larner College of Medicine

Markus Thali

Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

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Alma mater(s)
  • Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Postdoctoral Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Affiliated Department(s)

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Areas of expertise

  • Analyzing how HIV-induced small T cell syncytia contribute to HIV spread in infected individuals; 
  • Investigating how cell-cell fusion reprograms cells and can endow fused cells with new properties; 
  • Studying how, overall, the presence (rather than the absence) of viruses keeps us healthy.

BIO

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zürich, Switzerland in 1990; Postdoctoral research with Joseph Sodroski at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne; Joined the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics late in 1999

 

Courses

  • MD 555 Attacks and Defenses
  • MMG 6990 Ethics in Graduate Research
  • HCOL 2000 Viruses in Eco & Human Health

 

Publications

NIH Publications

Bio

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Zürich, Switzerland in 1990; Postdoctoral research with Joseph Sodroski at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor at the University of Lausanne; Joined the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics late in 1999

 

Courses

  • MD 555 Attacks and Defenses
  • MMG 6990 Ethics in Graduate Research
  • HCOL 2000 Viruses in Eco & Human Health

 

Publications

Lab Team Members

Markus Thali, PI;
Mel Symeonides, Faculty;
PhD Student: Jon Girard;
Undergraduate Students: Christen Frandina and Samantha Holoubek.
HIV-induced, small T cell syncytia
HIV-induced human primary CD4+ T cell syncytia crawling through collagen (extracellular matrix)