Ian York's Increasingly Outdated Home Page

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

Some of my publications. I won't promise to keep these up to date.

I have a blog, "Mystery Rays from Outer Space", where I talk about virology, immunology, and occasionally baseball.

Minor freeware programs I've written; mostly molecular biology-oriented.

XPlasMap: MacOSX plasmid maps and analysis
"Translate Widget": DNA/Protein manipulation Dashboard widget for MacOS10.4+
"Reminder widget": Reminders Dashboard widget

The short version of my CV goes something like this: I graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College in 1985, practiced veterinary medicine for a few years, and then went back to school. I got an M.Sc. from OVC in 1990 (my thesis was called A Subunit Vaccine for Bovine Adenovirus Serotype 3) and then a Ph.D. 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 herpesvirus immune evasion gene ICP47 led to three papers (Cell, 1994; Nature, 1995; EMBO J, 1996) that have (as of winter 2008) collectively been cited over 1000 times.

In 1994 I became a Research Fellow at Harvard University at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, with Ken Rock. In 1997 we moved to the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, where I became an Instructor (2001) and then a Research Assistant Professor (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 autoimmunity and viral immune evasion, as they affect and are affected by 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This page (originally written in 1995, when I was first curious about HTML) eventually got too outdated even for me to ignore, but rather than actually do anything about it I'm just taking most of it down.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.

These pages don't reflect anyone's opinion except my own, and even then I reserve the right to deny it.

Random blurry photo from iayork.com

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Latest update: Mar. 2010. Updated publication list, other updates.
Previous updates: Jan. 2010. Updated email address.
Mar. 2008: Minor URL updates, removed some obsolete content