The Wang laboratory is in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
We are interested in how viruses exploit cellular machineries to achieve their infection and replication. We particularly focus on influenza virus, which continuously evolves and brings new epidemics and pandemics to the world. We study the late stages of influenza virus life cycle, including virion assembly, egress and transmission between cells. These critical steps ensure the formation of infective progeny virions, and set the stage for the establishment of new infections. We aim to elucidate the virus-host interaction in these infection steps, its kinetics, and the underlying regulatory mechanisms.
