Leslie J. Parent is an American microbiologist and immunologist currently professor and vice dean of the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University.[1] She is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[2] and American Society for Microbiology.[3]

Leslie Parent
Alma materDuke University
Known forRetroviruses
Virology
Scientific career
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University

Education edit

She earned her M.D. in 1987 at Duke University followed by residency and training at Duke University Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.[4]

Research edit

Her research involves virology, retrovirus duplicating and biology.[4] Her highest cited paper is "Positionally independent and exchangeable late budding functions of the Rous sarcoma virus and human immunodeficiency virus Gag proteins"[5] cited at 278 times, according to Google Scholar.[6]

Awards and Honors edit

  • 2017- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science[2]

Selected publications edit

  • Bewley MC, Reinhart L, Stake MS, Nadaraia-Hoke S, Parent LJ, Flanagan JM. A non-cleavable hexahistidine affinity tag at the carboxyl-terminus of the HIV-1 Pr55Gag polyprotein alters nucleic acid binding properties. Protein Expr Purif. 2017 Feb; 130:137-145. PMID 27721079.
  • Kaddis Maldonado RJ, Parent LJ. Orchestrating the Selection and Packaging of Genomic RNA by Retroviruses: An Ensemble of Viral and Host Factors. Viruses. 2016 Sep 20; 8(9). PMID 27657110.
  • Rye-McCurdy T, Olson ED, Liu S, Binkley C, Reyes JP, Thompson BR, Flanagan JM, Parent LJ, Musier-Forsyth K. Functional Equivalence of Retroviral MA Domains in Facilitating Psi RNA Binding Specificity by Gag. Viruses. 2016 Sep 19; 8(9). PMID 27657107.
  • Stake M, Singh D, Singh G, Marcela Hernandez J, Kaddis Maldonado R, Parent LJ, Boris-Lawrie K. HIV-1 and two avian retroviral 5' untranslated regions bind orthologous human and chicken RNA binding proteins. Virology. 2015 Dec; 486:307-20. PMID 26584240; PMC 4877169 [Available on 12/01/16].

References edit

  1. ^ "Meet Dr. Leslie Parent, Penn State Hershey's new vice dean for research". Penn State Health News. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Five Penn State Researchers Named AAAS Fellows". pennstate.edu. December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  3. ^ "Leslie J. Parent". asm.org. Retrieved December 17, 2017.[dead link]
  4. ^ a b "Leslie Parent". psu.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  5. ^ L J Parent, R P Bennett, R C Craven, T D Nelle, N K Krishna, J B Bowzard, C B Wilson, B A Puffer, R C Montelaro and J W Wills. J. Virol. September 1995 vol. 69 no. 9 5455-5460
  6. ^ "Leslie Parent". Retrieved December 17, 2017.