June 8, 2017
E. Will Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, is a pharmacologist, computational chemist and virologist. Dr. Taylor has been engaged in research on HIV, Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases for over 25 years, and is best known for his work on the role and mechanisms of the dietary trace element selenium in reducing the pathophysiological effects of various RNA viruses. His group recently identified novel antisense interactions between viral RNAs and host mRNAs such as thioredoxin reductases as a previously unrealized contributor to viral pathology. Active research projects with current graduate students range from purely computational studies of nano-bio-structures (such as G-quadruplexes) to studies of mechanisms of viral pathogenesis, including both in vitro cellular and molecular methods, and work with live HIV-1 and Zika virus.
Will is a guitar and piano enthusiast, ready and willing to form a house band with any other MC2 members. With his wife Maria Dormandy Taylor, he is also a cofounder of the Triad Vegan Society, and operates the Dharma Farm Animal Refuge in Archdale, NC
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