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Kenneth S. Plante

Graduate Assistant, Pathology Education

University of Texas Medical Branch
2.144 Keiller Building
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-0428

Office: (409) 747-2440
ksplante@utmb.edu

Professional Education

Honors

• Charles J. Hoff scholarship for scientific excellance
• Undergraduate research excellance award
• Graduate Magna cum laude
• Two year Sealy Center for Vaccine Development graduate fellowship
• Poster Award from Sealy center for Vaccine Development symposium

Research Interests

Currently I am in the process of developing a live attenuated vaccine candidate for chikungunya virus (CHIKV). The strategy involves using internal ribosome entry sequence (IRES) elements added into the genome at separate locations to place different structural genes under the translational control of IRES.

Selected Publications

1. Chimeric alphavirus vaccine candidates protect mice from intranasal challenge with western equine encephalitis virus Svetlana Atasheva, 1, Eryu Wang, A. Paige Adams, Kenneth S. Plante, Sai Ni, Katherine Taylor, Mary E. Miller, Ilya Frolov, and Scott C. Weaver.