Areas of Expertise
Postdoctoral fellow
Dr. Huub Brouwers (PhD.): Characterization of the Virulome of Loma salmonae.
Graduate Students
Angela Riveroll (PhD, Current candidate): Program Focus: Role of heat shock proteins of in the pathogenesis of Legionella pneumophila
Sara Purcell (PhD, Current candidate): Program Focus: Development of DNA Markers for the American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
Aaron Park (MSc, Current candidate): Program Focus: Development of DNA vaccines carrying expression-optimized genes derived from prokaryotic pathogens
Supervisory Committee member (1999–present)
MSc Program
Jodie Collins
Sylvia Craig
Rebecca Marshall
Jingbai Nie
Michelle Theriault
Roy Udyamputhoor
Karen Smith-Miner
Charles Caraguel
PhD Program
Mark Ball
Huub Brouwers
Malliga Nagarajan
Neil Leblanc
Luis Rodriguez
Selected Publications
Manuscripts in Preparation
Park, A. and P.J. Lewis. (2005). Construction of expression-optimized genes using Recursive PCR.
Park, A., Heaney, S., Markham, R. J. F., Sheppard, J., Fairbrother, J. Willson, P. and P. J. Lewis. (2005). Development of a DNA-based vaccine encoding a codon-optimized version the major fimbrial antigen FaeG from E. coli.
Published Articles
Lewis. P.J., van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk, S. and L.A. Babiuk. 1999. Altering the cellular location of an antigen delivered by DNA-based vaccine modulates the immune response. J. Virol., 73(12):10214-10233.
Lewis, P.J., van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk, S. and L.A. Babiuk. 1999. Induction of immune responses to bovine herpesvirus type 1 gD in passively immune mice after immunization with a DNA-based vaccine. J. Gen. Virol., 80:2829-2837.
Lewis, P.J. and L.A. Babiuk.1999. DNA vaccines: A review. Adv. in Virus Res. 54:129-188.
