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Latest update: March '08. This site is barely maintained. A slightly more updated version is at iayork.com.

I'm an assistant professor at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI, in the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. My research interests are in molecular immunology, molecular virology, and the interaction of the two.

XPlasMap: MacOSX plasmid maps and analysis
"Savage Plasmids": Web-based plasmid maps (postscript/PDF/SVG)
"Translate Widget": DNA/Protein manipulation Dashboard widget for MacOS10.4 ("Tiger")
"Reminder widget": Reminders widget
"Top widget": CPU usage widget

The short version of my CV goes something like this: I graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College with a DVM in 1985, practiced veterinary medicine for a few years, and then went back to school: I picked up a MSc from OVC in 1990 (my thesis was called A Subunit Vaccine for Bovine Adenovirus Serotype 3) and then a PhD from McMaster University in 1994 (Evasion of the Cellular Immune Response by Herpes Simplex Virus); my Ph.D. supervisor, David Johnson, has since moved to the University of Oregon.

My PhD work, on the herpesviral immune evasion gene ICP47, led to three papers (Cell, 1994; Nature, 1995; EMBO J, 1996) that have (as of summer 2006) collectively been cited over 900 times.

From 1994 to 1997 I was a postdoctoral fellow with Ken Rock at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Research Fellow in the Department of Pathology, Harvard University. In 1997 we moved to University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, and I became a Research Assistant Professor there (still with Ken) in 2003. In 2006, I moved to Michigan State University, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics.

At present I'm working on understanding proteases and chaperones that are involved in anti-viral immunity, particularly through the class I major histocompatibility complex.

Sometimes I leave the lab, and find out that I'm married to Amy Yang and have two children, William Yilong and Matthew Yifan York.

This page (originally written in 1995, when I was first curious about HTML) eventually got too outdated even for me to ignore, but rather than actually do anything about it I'm just taking most of it down. (To more finely accentuate the uselessness of this page, I have added CSS and CGI. These pages are not optimized for any browser. If they are unreadable on your machine, that is a benefit, not a disadvantage.) If there was something in the old one you particularly wanted, drop me a note. My email address is iayork, and I've been at panix.com since 1994 or so.

William is a goof

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