Larry Grill

Visiting Professor of Biology

Email: [email protected]
Office: KGI  Building 215, room 207
Phone: 909-607-0175

Educational Background

Master and Bachelor Degrees, California State University, Fullerton
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside

Courses Taught

• BIOL 082L Today’s Plant Biotechnology
• BIOL 164 Virology ALS 333 Pharmaceutical Development
• ALS 401 Biotechnology-based Therapeutics

Research Interests

Production of Vaccines in Plants

Thesis Topics

Viral Vectors for Vaccine Development

Selected Publications

1. Grill, L.K., Palmer, K.P. and Pogue, G.P. (2005). Use of Plant Viruses for Production of Plant-Derived Vaccines. Critical Reviews in Plant Science  24: 309-323.
2. Grill, L.K.  (2004). Production of Pharmaceutical Proteins Using Viral Vectors. Handbook of Plant Biotechnology (Paul Christou, Harry Klee, eds.) John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Chpt 40.
3. Grill, L.K., Lindbo, J., Pogue, G.P., and Turpen, T.H. (2002). Viral vector expression of foreign proteins in plants. Plants as Factories for Protein Production (E.E. Hood, J.A. Howard, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers. 3-16.
4. McCormick, A.A., Kumagai, M.H., Hanley, K., Turpen, T.H., Hakim, I., Grill, L.K., Tusé, D., Levy, S., and Levy, R. (1999). Rapid Production of Specific Vaccines for Lymphoma by Expression of the Tumor-derived single-chain Fv Epitopes in Tobacco Plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 703-708.
5. della-Cioppa, G and Grill, L.K. (1996). Production of Novel Compounds in Higher Plants by Transfection with RNA Viral Vectors. Engineering Plants for Commercial Products and Applications (G.B. Collins, R.J. Shepherd, eds.) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 792: 57-61.