Richard Hardy
Associate Professor
Office: Simon Hall 220E
Phone: 812/856-0652
Email: rwhardy 
indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1998
Post-doctoral Fellow, Washington University, St. Louis, 1998-2002
Research
Genome functions of RNA viruses and the roles of trans-acting factorsRepresentative Publications
A. J. Burnham, L. Gong, and R. W. Hardy. 2007. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonuclear protein K interacts with Sindbis virus nonstructural proteins and viral subgenomic mRNA. Virology. In press.
M. A. Thal, B. R. Wasik, J. Posto, and R. W. Hardy. 2007. Template requirements for recognition and copying by Sindbis virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Virology. 358: p.221-232.
S. Tomar, R. W. Hardy, J. Smith, and R. J. Kuhn. 2006. Catalytic core of alphavirus nonstructural protein, nsP4 possesses a terminal adenyly transferase activity. J. Virol. 80(20): p.9962-9969.
R. W. Hardy. 2005. The role of the 3’ terminus of the Sindbis virus genome in minus-strand initiation site selection. Virology 345: p.520-531.
R. W. Hardy and C. M. Rice. 2005. Requirements at the 3’ end of the Sindbis virus genome for efficient synthesis of minus-strand RNA. J. Virol. 79 (8): p. 4630-4639.
R. Gorchakov, R. Hardy, C.M. Rice, and I. Frolov, 2004. Selection of functional 5' cis-acting elements promoting efficient Sindbis virus genome replication. J. Virol, 78(1): p. 61-75.
R. W. Hardy, J. Marcotrigiano, K. Blight, J. Majors, and C. M. Rice. 2003. Hepatitis C virus RNA synthesis in a cell-free system isolated from replicon-containing hepatoma cells. J. Virol. 77 (3). 2029-2037.
Frolov*, R. W. Hardy*, C. M. Rice. 2001. cis-acting RNA elements at the 5’ end of Sindbis virus genome RNA regulate minus and plus strand RNA synthesis. RNA. 7. 1638-1651. * co-first authors
