Shou-wei Ding MS, PhD

Dr. Ding is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of California , Riverside . He received his PhD from the Australian National University 's Research School of Biological Sciences in 1990, and subsequently completed postdoctoral training in plant molecular virology at the Waite Institute, University of Adelaide , South Australia . He has previously served on the faculty of the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology at the National University of Singapore .

Dr. Ding has active research programs funded by the NIH, USDA, and California Citrus Research Board to investigate mechanisms of virus-host interactions, primarily focusing on the biology and application of gene silencing as an antiviral immunity in both plant and animal systems. His teaching responsibilities at the University of California , Riverside include undergraduate and graduate courses in virology. Dr. Ding is an editor of FEBS Letters (Federation of European Biochemistry Societies) . He also serves on the editorial boards of Virology and Phytopathology.