Mason Shipley
Credentials: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Pathology Program
(School of Medicine and Public Health)
Position title: Graduate student
Email: mashipley@wisc.edu
Website: Neumann Lab
Advisor: Donna Neumann, PhD
Keywords: HSV-1, molecular virology, ocular pathogenesis
Education
BS 2020, (1) Biochemistry, (2) Microbiology, (3) Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Research
Mason Shipley’s interests are in how the herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) mechanistically reactivates after latent
infection, and how HSV-1 reactivation events affect neuronal damage and keratitis symptoms. Shipley has experience mouse models following lytic infections via corneal epithelium inoculations.