Our team

Team members include 4 full professors, 1 associate professor, 1 assistant professor, 1 post-doctoral fellow, 2 research assistants, over 30 graduate students.

Our aims

The poultry viral infectious diseases team aims to develop vaccines and diagnostic reagents for the prevention and controlling of major poultry infectious viral diseases such as Newcastle disease, Infectious bronchitis, Duck hepatitis and Marek's disease, etc, based on the studying of the pathogen molecular etiology and epidemiology, infection and pathogenicity, immune responses.

Our Research

(1) Investigate the molecular pathogenic mechanisms and immune mechanisms of major avian viruses. Focus on the major viral pathogens in poultry industry such as Newcastle disease virus, infectious bronchitis virus, duck hepatitis virus, and Marek's disease virus, we focus on pathogen prevalence, mutation, immune escape, pathogenicity, host gene expression and metabolic reprogramming, to improve the understanding of the biology of pathogenic infection process, finally provide theoretical basis for the development of diagnosis reagents and vaccines, as well as policy-making.

(2) Conduct epidemiological investigations and metagenomics studies on poultry (poultry, waterfowl, wildfowl) as virus reservoirs and existing background diseases, and assess the risk of cross-species transmission of avian viruses. Clarify the molecular basis of cross-species transmission and virulence variation of these viruses, and focus on in-depth research on the molecular mechanism of their transmission to other poultry or cross-species.

(3) Develop quick and accurate detection technologies, as well as safe and effective new vaccines, to provide technical support for controlling the occurrence and prevalence of important poultry infectious diseases, including Newcastle disease, infectious bronchitis, Marek's disease, and duck hepatitis, etc.