Faculty

gertrude buehring Gertrude Case Buehring, Ph.D.
Professor of Virology
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

Buehring, G.C., Shen, H-M, Jensen, H.M., Block, G. (2007). Bovine leukemia virus is significantly associated with risk of breast cancer. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research 47:#1747.

Zhao, X., Buehring, G.C. (2007). Natural genetic variation in bovine leukemia virus envelope gene: Possible effects of selection and escape. Virology 366:150-165.

Zhao, X., McGirr, K.M., Buehring, G.C. (2007). Evolutionary influences on overlapping reading frames in the bovine leukemia virus pXCBL region. Genomics 89:502-511.

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 Scholar Award for research/teaching in Costa Rica, 2002-2003
  • Otto Sartorius Excellence in Research Award, 2003

Profile updated: June 4, 2008