Education:

• Ph.D. Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 1982
• B.S. Biology, Meredith College, 1977

Research:

Our interests center on the molecular biology of Marek's disease virus, a herpesvirus that causes infectious T-cell lymphomas in chickens. Specific research projects include understanding the molecular mechanisms that lead to transformation of T-cells by Marek's disease virus, examining the immunological responses that result in vaccine- induced protection from lymphoma formation, and developing vaccines to control Marek's disease.  Microarray technology is being used to understand host responses to infection.

Special Appointments and Memberships:

Board of Directors, University of Delaware Technology Corporation, 2007-present
Board of Directors, Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc., 2001-present
Board of Trustees, Longwood Gardens, 2005-present
Council of Farm Organizations, 2001-present
Panel Member, Animal Health and Well-Being Virology Panel, USDA-NRICGP, 1993,        1994, 1997 (Manager), 2001
Phi Kappa Phi
Member of the American Society for Virology, 1985-2004
Member of the American Society for Microbiology, 1985-2004
Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Associate Member of the American Association of Avian Pathologists

Publications:

• Niikura, Masahiro, T. Kim, H. D. Hunt, J. Burnside, R. W. Morgan, J. D. Dodgson, and H. Cheng (2007) Marek's disease virus up-regulates major histocompatibility complx class II cell surface expression in infected cells.  Virology 359: 212-219. 
• Carre, W., X. Wang, T.E. Porter, Y. Nys, J. Tang, E.L. Bernberg, R.W. Morgan, J. Burnside, S.E. Aggrey, J. Simon, and L.A. Cogburn.  2006.  Chicken genomics resource:  sequencing and annotation of 35,407 ESTs fron single and multiple tissue cDNA libraries and CAP3 assembly of a chicken gene index.  Physiological Genomics 25:514-524.
• Burnside, Joan, E. Bernberg, A. Anderson, C. Lu, B. Meyers, P. Green, N. Jain, G. Isaacs, and R. Morgan (2006) Marek’s disease virus encodes microRNAs that map to meq and the latency-associated transcript.  Journal of Virology 80:8778-8786. 
• Lupiani, Blanca, Lee, Lucy F., Cui, Xiaoping, Gimeno, Isabel, Anderson, Amy, Morgan, Robin W., Silva, Robert F., Witter, Richard L., Kung, Hsing-Jien, and Sanjay M. Reddy (2004)           Marek’s disease virus-encoded Meq gene is involved in transformation of lymphocytes but    is dispensable for replication.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Science (USA) 101: 11815-11820.

Book Chapters

• Burnside, Joan and R. W. Morgan.  2007.  Genomics and Marek's disease in:  Cytogenetics and  Genome Research, S. Karger.  Vol. 17, pp 376-387.
• Cogburn, Larry A., Robin W. Morgan, and Joan Burnside (2003)  Expressed sequence tags,  DNA chips technology and gene expression profiling.  In:  Poultry Breeding and  Biotechnology, William M. Muir and S. E. Aggrey (eds).  Cambridge, MA:  CABI Publishing, pp. 627-646.

Abstracts:

• Robin W. Morgan, Grace Isaacs, Mark Parcells, Milos Markis, Amy S. Anderson, Erin L. Bernberg, Sandra Cloud Rosenberger, and John K. Rosenberger  (2007)  Control of contemporary Marek’s disease isolates.  For presentation at the AAAP/AVMA meeting, Washington, DC, July 2007.
• Robin W. Morgan, Amy S. Anderson, Erin L. Bernberg, Grace Isaacs, Milos Markis, and Joan Burnside  (2007)  Functions of Marek’s disease virus microRNAs.  For presentation at the AAAP/AVMA meeting, Washington, DC, July 2007.
• Robin W. Morgan, Amy S. Anderson, Erin L. Bernberg, Grace Isaacs, Emily Huang, Milos Markis, Blake Meyers, Pam Green, and Joan Burnside (2007) Marek's disease virus trickery:  Functions of viral microRNAs.  For presentation at the 32nd International Herpesvirus Workshop, Asheville, NC, July 2007. 
• Hans H. Cheng, M. Niijura, G. Kim, W. Mao, K. MacLea, H. Hunt J. Dodgson, J. Burnside, R. Morgan, M. Ouyang, S. Lamont, J. Dekkers, J. Fulton, N. O’Sullivan, M. Soller, and W. Muir (2007) Uncovering the mysteries of viral disease resistance in poultry through a combination of genomic and proteomic approaches.  For presentation at the “Emerging Trends in the Application of Genomics in Agricultural Research” conference, September 0-12, 2007, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 
• Hans H. Cheng, M. Niijura, G. Kim, W. Mao, K. MacLea, H. Hunt J. Dodgson, J. Burnside, R. Morgan, M. Ouyang, S. Lamont, J. Dekkers, J. Fulton, N. O’Sullivan, M. Soller, and W. Muir (2007) Uncovering the mysteries of viral disease resistance in poultry through a combination of genomic and proteomic approaches.  For presentation at the Interanational Symposium on Animal Genomics for Animal Health, October 23-25, 2007, Paris, France. 
• Joan Burnside, Erin Bernberg, Amy Anderson, Cheng Lu, Neeta Jain, Blake Meyers, Pam Green, and Robin Morgan (2006) Small RNA cloning and expression in chick embryos.  International Chicken Genome Consortium Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May             2006.
• Morgan, Robin, E. Bernberg, A. Anderson, C. Lu, B. Meyers, P. Green, N. Jain, G. Isaacs, and  J. Burnside  (2006)  Marek’s disease virus microRNAs map to meq and LAT.  4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek’s Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark, DE.
• Erin Bernberg, J. Burnside, A. Anderson, C. Lu, N. Jain, B. Meyers, P. Green, and R. Morgan  (2006)  Small RNA cloning and expression in uninfected and MDV-infected chick embryo fibroblasts.  4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek’s Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark, DE.
• Mark Parcells, P. Kumar, P Hontz, E. Bernberg, A. Anderson, G. Isaacs, R. Morgan. S. Cloud, and J. Rosenberger  (2006)  The MDV shedder model in the US.  4th International Workshop on the Molecular Pathogenesis of Marek’s Disease Virus, August 2006, Newark, DE.
• Bernberg, Erin L., Shally Xu, Ming Huang, Amarin Cogburn, Robin Morgan, and Joan Burnside (2005) Use of laser capture microdissection and DNA microarrays for high resolution analysis of gene expression in HVT-infected CEFs.  Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2005. 
• Cheng, Hans H., M. Niikura, T. Kim, K. MacLea, H. Hunt, Robin W. Morgan, and Joan   Burnside  (2005)  Integrating genomic and immunological approaches to understand Marek’s disease.  Keystone Systems Biology meeting, Keystone, CO, April 2005.
• Yandon, Mariclair, Amarin Cogburn, Shally Xu, Erin Bernberg, Robin Morgan, and Joan Burnside (2005)  Characterization of regulated genes in chicken embryo fibroblasts with herpesvrus of turkeys.  American Society for Experimental Biology, San Diego, CA, April 2005.
• Joan Burnside, Erin Bernberg, Shally Xu, Amarin Cogburn, and Robin Morgan (2004) Application of the 13K chicken cDNA microarray to high resolution analysis of host response to infection with Marek's disease virus.  Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2004. 
• Anderson, Amy S., G. Isaacs, Erin L. Bernberg, Larry A. Cogburn, X. Xu, K. Czymmek,Paul. J. A. Sondermeijer, Joan Burnside, and Robin. W. Morgan  (2004)  Construction and  characterization of a herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) recombinant containing a chicken   macrophage inflammatory protein-1 (MIP-1) gene.  7th International Symposium on  Marek’s Disease, July 2004, Oxford, UK.
• Bernberg, Erin L., X. Xu, Larry A Cogburn, K. Czymmek, Joan Burnside, and Robin W. Morgan  (2004)  Latency of herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT) and Marek’s disease virus  (MDV).  7th   International Symposium on Marek’s Disease, July 2004, Oxford, UK.
• Bernberg, Erin L., Amy S. Anderson, Joan Burnside, and Robin W. Morgan  (2004)  Latency  associated transcripts of herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT).  141st AVMA/AAAP annual  meeting, July 2004, Philadelphia, PA
• Tang, J. S., L. Lacoste, Joan Burnside, W. Martins, Robin W. Morgan, Larry A. Cogburn, Erin. L. Bernberg, and G. R. Gao  (2002)  Clustering chicken EST data using both  sequence and concept matches.  Plant, Animal, Microbe Genomes X Conference, January 12-16, 2002, San Diego, CA.