Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, Ph.D. is Chancellor’s Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on herpesviruses and a multifunctional protein termed ICP27 that plays critical roles in regulating viral and cellular gene expression. Dr. Sandri-Goldin was elected to the American Academy of Microbiology in 2007, and she is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She served as President of the American Society for Virology in 2009-2010, and she is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Virology.