Education | Laboratory Personnel | General Research Interest | Selected Research Projects
Research and Clinical Interests | Major Specialized Equipment Items Available | Selected Publications
TCSVM Faculty

Hanping Feng
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Infectious Diseases
Phone: 508-887-4252
Fax: 508-839-7911
Email: hanping.feng@tufts.edu
Dept. URL: http://www.tufts.edu/vet/biomed/infectious_diseases.htm

Education
PhD - University of Arizona - 2002
MS - Chinese Academy of Sciences - 1996
BS - University of Yangtz River - 1993

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Laboratory Personnel

Guilin Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow
Xiangyun He, Postdoctoral Associate
Mike Beshiri, Sr. Research Technician
Weijia Nie, Research Assistant

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General Research Interest
Host immune response to infectious agents; Signal transduction

Research Sponsor Interest

  • Privately Funded Research
  • Federally Funded Research
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Selected Research Projects

  1. Studies of Cryptosporidium hominis

  2. Innate immune response and dendritic cells in Cryptosporidiosis

  3. Clostridium difficile toxin-induced inflammatory response

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Selected Publications

  1. Zhang Q, Feng X, Nie W, Golenbock D, Tzipori S, and Feng H. MyD88-dependent pathway is essential for the innate immunity to Enterocytozoon bieneusi. Infection and Immunity. In revision.

  2. Feng H., Nie W., Bonilla R., Widmer G., Sheoran A., and Tzipori S.: Quantitative Tracking of Cryptosporidium infection in cell culture using CFSE. 2006. Journal of Parasitology. 92:1350-4.

  3. Feng H., Nie W., Sheoran A., Zhang Q., and Tzipori S.: Bile acids enhance the invasiveness of Cryptosporidium of cultured cells. 2006. Infection and Immunity. 74(6):3342-6.

  4. Feng H., Zhang D., Palliser D., Zhu P., Cai, Schlesinger A., Maliszewski L., and J. Lieberman: Cytosolic invasion by L. monocytogenes activates dendritic cells to secrete interferon beta that sensitizes T cell activation. Journal of Immunology. 2005, 175: 421-432

  5. Feng H., Zeng Y., Graner M., Whitesell L., Katsanis E.: Evidence for a novel, caspase 8-independent, Fas death domain-mediated apoptotic pathway. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology. 2004, 2004: 41-51

  6. Feng H., Zeng Y., Graner M., Likhacheva A, Katsanis E.: Exogenous stress proteins enhance the immunogenicity of apoptotic tumor cells and stimulate anti-tumor immunity. Blood 2003, 101: 245-52

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