Education:
1986  B.S. Biology, Central China Normal University
1994  M.S. Entomology, Central China Normal University
2002  Ph.D. Microbiolgy, State Key Laboratory for Biocontrol,  Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University

Employment:
2006 December – present, postdoctoral fellow, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
2004 -2006 - postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Ohio, investigated baculovirus molecular biology and ascovirus genomics
2003-2004 - postdoctoral fellow, at Great Lakes Forestry Centre(GLFC), studied the biological functions and role of fusolin in Choristoneura fumiferana entomopoxvirus (CfEPV) and insect-virus interaction.

My current study area focuses on understanding how the insect host’s immune system protects insects from parasitoid invasion and reciprocally, how parasitoids overcome host defense. This includes the study of microbial symbionts like polydnaviruses that carried by many parasitoids and that play a key role in suppressing the immune system of host insect. The wasp strategy for delivery of polydnavirus gene could inspire medical applications for gene therapy, whereas polydnavirus virulence factors are of interest in agriculture.

Wang L, Xue J, Arif B.M., Cheng X, Sequence and organization of the Trichoplusia ni ascovirus 2c (Ascoviridae) Genome. Virology, 2006, 354:167-177

Cheng X, Wang L, Carner G.R, Arif B.M. Characterization of three ascovirus isolates from cotton insects. J. Invertebr Pathol. 2005 Jul;89(3):193-202

Wang L, Yu J, Yin C, Li Z, Pang Y. Characterization of a J domain gene of Spodoptera litura multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus. Virus Genes 2002, 25(3):291-297

Pang Y, Yu J, Wang L, Hu X, Bao W, Li G, Chen C, Han H, Hu S, Yang H. Sequence analysis of the Spodoptera litura multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus genome. Virology 2001, 287(2): 391-404