Manoj K. Pastey, BVSc, MS, PhD, DACVM
Associate Professor - Molecular Virology & Immunology
Immunology
Infectious Disease
Pastey Lab
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Research
450 SW 30th Street
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States
Research/Career Interests
- Molecular biology and pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1)
- Molecular biology and pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
- Diagnosis and surveillance of West Nile virus
- Virus-host interactions
Professional Awards:
- NIH Staff Recognition Award for Research Excellence, Vaccine Research Center, NIH, 2004.
- NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence in Biomedical Research, NIH, 2004.
- Sidney P. Colowick Award for Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow in the Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2000.
- Henry Christian Award for Excellence in Research presented at Experimental Biology Meeting (FASEB), Washington DC, 1999.
- Trainee Travel Award Presented at Experimental Biology Meeting (FASEB), Washington DC, 1999.
- Travel Grant Award presented at 12th annual meeting of American Society for Virology, 1993.
- Indian Veterinary Research Institute Junior Merit Scholarship, 1988-1989. University of Agricultural Sciences Merit Scholarship, 1983-1988.
- University of Agricultural Sciences 7 Gold Medals for Securing First Rank in Undergraduate Studies, 1983-1988.
- Karnataka State Government Youth Services & Sports Award for Academic Excellence in Undergraduate Studies.
Selected Publications:
- Pastey, M.K. and Graham, B.S. (2004). Morphometrics of respiratory syncytial virus. (submitted to Journal of Virology).
- Pastey, M.K., Huang, Y., Nabel, A. and Graham, B.S. (2004). SARS coronavirus buds from lipid raft microdomains. (submitted toJournal of Virology).
- Yunus, A.S., Krishnamurthy, S., Pastey, M.K., Huang, Z., Khattar, S.K., Collins, P.L and Samal, S.K. Rescue of a bovine respiratory syncytial virus genomic RNA analog by bovine, human and ovine respiratory syncytial viruses confirms the “functional integrity” and “cross-recognition” of BRSV cis-acting elements by HRSV and ORSV. Archives of Virology 1999; 144(10):1977-90.
- Samal, S.K and Pastey, M.K. Bovine respiratory syncytial virus genes in immune recognition and pathogenesis. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Virus-cell Interaction. 1994; 2:159-162.