About Us

Dr. Morrison has a BA from Wellesley college and obtained her PhD from the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University Medical School. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a Professor in the Department of Microbiology of the UMass Chan Medical School. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology. She is an Associate Editor for Science Advances, the online version of Science Magazine, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Virology. She has served as the Program Chair for the American Society for Virology, the Chair of the Microbiology Test Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Chair of Division T of the American Society for Microbiology, and a member of numerous study sections of the National Institutes of health. She has over 100 publications concerning RNA virus entry and assembly as well as vaccine development.

Lori obtained her B. S. from the microbiology department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has over 30 years of experience with paramyxoviruses and pneumoviruses. She, along with Dr. Homer Pantua, a past graduate student in the lab, developed virus-like particles as a tool for studies of virus assembly and as vaccine candidates. She has been instrumental in the characterization of the properties of VLPs, and in the characterization of immune responses of animals to VLPs assembled with different viral proteins. She is a co-author on over 50 publications and is first author on many of them.

Ting obtained her BS and MS from the University of Qingdao and her PhD from Washington State University in Food Science and Analytical Chemistry. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Nevada Cancer institute, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New to the laboratory, she is studying VLP vaccine candidates for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.