Amy Adamson
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biology
Dean's Office - Arts and Sciences
Email Address: aladamso@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.4758
Areas of Expertise
Virology – host/viral interactions at the cellular level (mainly Epstein-Barr Virus and influenza, but versed on viruses in general)
Education
Ph.D. Biology, The Johns Hopkins University
B.S. Biochemistry, State University of New York at Geneseo
Research
My research group is focused on intracellular virus-host interactions. We study how viruses affect cell biology at the molecular scale ~ most often viral protein-cell protein interactions and consequences. We are currently studying the ubiquitous Epstein-Barr and Influenza A viruses.
Courses Taught
- BIO 111 – Principles of Biology I – Introductory course in Biology
- BIO 355 – Cell Biology – Core-level course focusing on cell structure, function, and intracellular events
- BIO 442/642 – Genes and Signals – Upper-level course focusing on the advanced cell biology topics of transcriptional regulation and cell signaling (Speaking Intensive)
- BIO 485/685 – Virology – Upper-level course focusing on viruses
- BIO 482/682 – Seminar in Molecular Biological Approaches to Research – Upper-level course focusing on molecular biology techniques and their uses (Speaking Intensive)
- BIO 609 – Seminar in Molecular Biology – Graduate level course focusing on molecular biology techniques and their uses
Selected Publications
-Kohio, H. and A. Adamson. 2013. Glycolytic Control of Vacuolar-Type ATPase Activity: A Mechanism to Regulate Influenza Viral Infection. Virology 444: 301-309.
-Adamson, A., B. Le, and B. Siedenburg. 2014. Inhibition of mTOR inhibits lytic replication of Epstein-Barr virus in a cell-type specific manner. Virology Journal 11:110.
-Covell, A., Zeng, Z., Wei, J., Adamson A., and LaJeunesse, D. 2017. Alternative SiO2 surface energies direct MCDK epithelial behavior. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 3, 12, 3307-3317.
-Needham, J. and A. Adamson. 2019. BZLF1 Transcript Variants in Epstein-Barr Virus-Positive Epithelial Cell Lines. Virus Genes 55:779-785.
-Adamson, A., Jeffus, D., Davis, A., and Greengrove, E. 2022. Epstein-Barr virus lytic replication activates and is dependent upon MAPK-interacting kinase 1/2 in a cell-type dependent manner. Virology 572: 72-85.
-Adamson, A. 2022. Viral Infections and Glycolysis. Glycolysis (Textbook chapter, Elsevier).
-Adamson, A., Bullock, D., Daly, E., Mitchell, K., and Tirrell, K. 2023. The Epstein-Barr Virus Immediate-Early Protein BZLF1 and Cellular Mnk1 drive migration of Cancer Cells. In prep.