Richard W. Moyer, PhD

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Senior Associate Dean for Research Development, College of Medicine, Professor of Surgery
Laboratory of Inflammation Biology and Surgical Science

phone: (352) 273-5230

Awards and Professional Interests - Research/Clinical Interests
References - Biosketch - Links
Awards and Professional Interests
  • Who's Who In American Colleges and Universities
  • Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship - 1967 to January 1970
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Fellowship (declined)
  • National Institutes of Health Career Development Award, began January 1970
  • Research grants from the Research Corporation, the American Cancer Society, the National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation, USDA, and American Heart Association
  • Corporate support from SmithKline Beecham and Therion Biologicals.
  • University of Florida research Foundation Professor 1997
  • University of Florida PEP professor 1998
  • Publications listed in the National Library of Medicine

Research/Clinical Interests
  • Dr. Moyer's long-term interests center about the identification and characterization of genes which contribute to viral (poxvirus) pathogenesis and disease. Towards that end, he is currently investigating two distinct poxvirus systems, a vertebrate poxvirus (mainly rabbitpox virus) and an insect poxvirus.
References
  1. Barry, M., Heibein, J.A., Lee, Siow-Fong, Moyer, R.W., Green, D.R. and Bleackley, R.C. (2000) Granzyme B short circuits the need for caspase 8 activity during granule-mediated CTL killing by directly cleaving Bid. Mol. And Cell Biol. 20 (11): 3781-94.
  2. Turner, P.C., Baquero, M.T., Yuan, S., Thoennes, S.R., Moyer, R.W. (2000). The cowpox virus serpin SPI-3 complexes with and inhibits urokinase-type and tissue-type plasminogen activators and plasmin. Virology 272, 267-280.
  3. Wang, Yun Xiang, Turner, P.C., Ness, Traci L., Moon, Kristen B., Schoeb, Trenton R., and Moyer, R.W. (2000). The cowpox virus SPI-3 and myxoma virus SERP1 seroins are not functionally interchangable despite their similar proteinase inhibition profiles in vitro. *Virology, 272, 281-292. *Received cover photo for this issue.
  4. Bawden A.L., Glassberg, K., Farmerie, W., Diggans, J., Shaw, R., and Moyer, R.W. (2000). The complete genomic sequence of the Amsacta moorei entomopoxvirus: analysis and comparison with other poxviruses. Virology 274, 120-139.
  5. Fang, J. W., and Moyer, R.W. (2000) The effects of the conserved extreme 3' end sequence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA on the in vitro stabilization and translation of the HCV RNA genome. J. Hepatol 33, 632-9.
  6. Turner, P.C., and Moyer, R.W. (2001) Serpins enable poxviruses to evade immune defenses. ASM News 67, 201-210.
  7. Silverman, G.A., Bird, P.I., Carrell, R.W., Church, F.C., Coughlin, P.B., Gettins, P.G., Irving, J.A., Lomas, D.A., Luke, C.J., Moyer, R.W., Pemberton, P.A., Remold-O'Donnell, E., Salvesen, G.S., Travis, J., and Whisstock, J.C. (2001) The serpins are an expanding superfamily of structurally similar but functionally diverse proteins. Evolution, mechanism of inhbition, novel functions, and a revised nomenclature. J Biol Chem 6, 33293-6.
  8. Sriskanda, V., Moyer, R.W., and Shuman, S. (2001) NAD+- dependent DNA ligase encolded by a eukaryotic virus. J Biol Chem 276, 36100-9.
  9. Turner, P.C. and Moyer, R.W. (2002) Poxvirus Immune Modulators: Functional Insights From Animal Models. Virus Res. Sep; 88 (1-2):35-53.
  10. Brum, L.M., Turner, P.C., Devick, H.,m Baquero, T. and Moyer, R.W. (2002) Plasma Membrane Localization and Fusion Inhibitory Activity of the Cowpox Virus Serpin SPI-3 Require a Functional Signal Sequence and the Virus Encoded Hemagglutinin. Virology (In Press)

 
Biosketch
Education
1962Pennsylvania State UniversityB.S. - Major: Agricultural and Biological ChemistryMinor: Chemistry
1967University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. - Major: Biochemistry Minor: Organic Chemistry
 
Academic Appointments
1962 - 1963Research Assistant, Biochemistry, University of Minnesota
1963 - 1967Research Assistant, Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
6/65 - 9/65 Summer Trainee in Physiology, Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory
1967 - 1969 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1970 - 1976 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Columbia University
1976 - 1981Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
1982 - 1986Professor, Department of Microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
1987 - 1993Professor and Chairman, Department of Immunology and Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida
1993-2003 Professor and Chairman, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida
2003-present Senior Associate Dean for Research Administration, College of Medicine, University of Florida

 
Links
  1. Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/index.htm)



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