Sean Hui

Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

Current advisor: Daved H. Fremont, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of California-San Diego, 2015

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Structural Perspectives on Host-Pathogen Interactions of Arboviruses

Graduate publications
Chong Z, Hui S, Qiu X, Palakurty S, Sariol A, Kaszuba T, Nguyen MN, Li P, Raju S, Hall PD, Nelson CA, Baltazar-Perez I, Price DA, Rothlauf PW, Crowe JE, Whelan SPJ, Leung DW, Amarasinghe GK, Bailey AL, Fremont DH, Diamond MS. 2026 Multiple LDLR family members act as entry receptors for yellow fever virus. Nature, 649(8095):173-82. PMCID:

Li P, Hui S, Chong Z, Escaffre O, Nguyen MN, Muraro SP, Janova H, Ma H, Cao S, Kaszuba T, Imbiakha B, Palakurty S, Pearson ML, Price DA, Amarasinghe GK, Leung DW, Rossi SL, Freiberg AN, Fremont DH, Diamond MS. 2025 LRP8 is an entry receptor for tick-borne encephalitis viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 122(44):e2525771122. PMCID: PMC12595491

Raju S, Palakurty S, Sariol A, Wagoner N, Adams LJ, Hui S, Klimstra WB, Fremont DH, Diamond MS. 2025 Structural basis for plasticity in receptor engagement by an encephalitic alphavirus. Cell, 188(11):2943-2956.e24. PMCID: PMC12252583