Gertrude Buehring, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Virology
Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases
PHONE: (510) 642-3870
FAX: (510) 642-6350
LOCATION: 61-A Koshland Hall
MAILING ADDRESS: 16 Barker Hall, MC 7354
E-MAIL: buehring@berkeley.edu
Research Interests
- Bovine leukemia virus and its possible role in causing breast cancer
- Early detection of breast cancer using breast fluid cytology
Courses
- PH162A Public Health Microbiology
- PH266 Viruses and Human Cancer
Selected Publications
Zhao, X., Buehring, G.C. (in press). Natural genetic variation in bovine leukemia virus envelope gene: Possible effects of selection and escape. Virology.
Buehring, G.C., Buehring, J.E., Girard, P. (in press). Lost in citation: Vanishing visibility of senior authors. Scientometrics.
Zhao, X., McGirr, K.M., Buehring, G.C. (in press). Evolutionary influences on overlapping reading frames in the bovine leukemia virus pXBL region. Genomics.
Zhao, X., Jimenez-Sanchez C., Sentsui, H., Buehring, G.C. (2007). Sequence polymorphisms in the long terminal repeat of bovine leukemia virus: Evidence for selection pressures in regulatory sequences. Virus Research 124, 113-124.
McGirr, K.M., Buehring, G.C. (2006). Variation in the tax/rex region of the human T cell leukemia/Bovine leukemia virus group: Evolutionary consequences in this overlapping reading frame. Virus Genes, 32, 229-239.
Buehring, G.C., Letscher, A., McGirr, K., Khandar, S., Che, L., Nguyen, C., Hackett, A. (2006). Presence of epithelial cells in nipple aspirate fluid is associated with subsequent breast cancer: A 25-year prospective study. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 98, 63-70.
Duncan, R.B., Scarratt, W.K., Buehring, G.C. (2005). Detection of bovine leukemia virus by in situ polymerase chain reaction in tissues from a case of sporadic bovine lymphosarcoma. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 17, 190-194.
Buehring, G.C., Choi, K.Y., Philpott, S.M. (2003). Humans have antibodies reactive with bovine leukemia virus. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 19, 1105-1113.
Motton, D.M., Buehring, G.C. (2003). Bovine leukemia virus alters growth properties and casein synthesis in mammary epithelial cells. Journal of Dairy Science, 86, 2826-38.
He, Z., Zhuang, H., Wang, X., Song, S., Dong, Q., Yan, J., Buehring, G.C., Luo, G. (2003). Retrospective analysis of non-A-E hepatitis: Possible role of hepatitis B and C virus infection. Journal of Medical Virology, 69, 59-65.
Robert-Guroff, M., Buehring, G.C. (2000). In pursuit of a human breast cancer virus. In J.J. Goedert (Ed.), Infectious Causes of Cancer. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
Philpott, S.M., Buehring, G.C. (1999). Defective DNA repair in cells infected with human T-cell leukemia/bovine leuekmia virus group. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 91, 933-942.
Other Interests
- Cornelius L. Hopper Scientific Achievement Awards: 2000, 2002
- Fulbright Award for teaching/research in Costa Rica: 2002-2003
- Otto Sartorius Excellence in Research Award, 2003
Profile updated: June 29, 2007