Meet Scott Tibbetts

​Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
University of Florida College of Medicine
2033 Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL 32610-3633
e-mail: stibbe(at)ufl.edu
Education & Experience
  • Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Louisiana State University
  • Postdoctoral Study, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, 1999, University of Kansas
  • B.S., Pharmacy, 1993, University of Kansas
Honors
  • 1996: Ethel & Joe Paretsky Award for Pathobiochemistry
  • 1997: Arthur Atsunobu Hirata Memorial Scholarship
  • 1997: William Arnold Graduate Fellows Award
  • 1998: Arthur Atsunobu Hirata Memorial Scholarship
  • 1999: Llewellyn Borgendale Jr. Graduate Seminar Award
  • 1999: Arthur Atsunobu Hirata Memorial Scholarship
  • 1999-00: NIH Training grant
  • 2000-03: Postdoctoral Fellow, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America
  • 2000-03: Postdoctoral Fellow, American Cancer Society (declined)
  • 2000-03: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health (declined)
  • 2003-06: Special Fellow, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America
  • 2005: Stephen L. Sacks Investigator Award (American Herpesvirus Foundation

About our lab

Our research program is focused on determining the mechanisms that these viruses use to establish latency in vivo, with the long-term goal of elucidating new targets for the prevention and treatment of gammaherpesvirus diseases.

The primary aims of our current work are to use the MHV68 system to define:
  1. the role of virus-encoded miRNAs and long noncoding RNAs in latency and tumorigenesis.
  2. the molecular mechanisms used by gammaherpesviruses to establish latency in B cells.
  3. the role of developing B cells in chronic gammaherpesvirus infections.
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The long-term goals of these studies are to better understand the complex interplay between these viruses and the host immune response, and to define how alterations in this relationship can result in the development of lymphoproliferative diseases and lymphoma.

Program Project

The Tibbetts Lab, in conjunction with the Renne Lab (UF) and the Flemington Lab (Tulane), is currently working on a P01 Program Project entitled, "Noncoding RNAs in Gamma-Herpesvirus Biology and AIDS Malignancies".

​For more information about the project, visit: http://www.rennelab.com/program-project.html 

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