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Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Eric O. Freed
Chief, Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick National Institutes of Health, Bg. 535/Rm. 108 Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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Ms. Frauke Muenzel *
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
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* To whom manuscripts should be submitted (viruses@mdpi.org).
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Dr. Brietta Pike
MDPI, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
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Editorial Board
Dr. Gian Paolo Accotto
Istituto di Virologia Vegetale, CNR Strada delle Cacce 73, Torino 10135, Italy
Tel. +39 011 397 79 16 ; Fax: +39 011 343 809
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Interests: geminiviruses; plant viruses; virus-plant interactions; resistance to plant viruses
Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann
Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada
Tel. +1 418 656 2131#2558; Fax: +1 418 656 7898
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Interests: emphasis on electron microscopy; classification; evolution; environment and virus taxonomy
Contribution:
Special Issue: Bacteriophage Assembly
Dr. Birke Bartosch
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Moléculaire et Nouveaux Traitements des Hépatites Virales, INSERM U871, Bio-optisis 27, Chemin des Peupliers, 69570 Dardilly, France
Tel. +33 4 37 49 74 20 ; Fax: +33 4 37 49 74 19
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Interests: flavivirus; hepatitis C virus; hepatitis B virus; virus-host cell interactions; hepatology; liver physiopathology; antivirals
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Special Issue: Hepatitis Viruses
Prof. Dr. Nancy E. Beckage
Departments of Entomology & Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of California Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Website: http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/public_individual.pl?faculty=196
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Interests: physiological and molecular host-parasite, host-pathogen, host-parasitoid relationships; insect immunity, pathology, virology, endocrinology, and behavior; parasitoid polydnaviruses and their roles during parasitism; mosquito vector biology, physiology, and vector-parasite interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Insect Viruses
Prof. Dr. Serge Benichou
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut Cochin, INSERM U567, Bâtiment Gustave Roussy, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014 Paris, France
Tel. +33 1 40 51 65 78; Fax: +33 1 40 51 65 70
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Dr. Joel N. Blankson
Broadway Research Bldg., Rm 880, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, 733 N. Broadway, Baltimore MD 21205, USA
Tel. +1 410 955 7757 ; Fax: +1 443 287 6218
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Prof. Dr. Craig Cameron
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, 201 Althouse Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Tel. +1 814 863 8705; Fax: +1 814 863 7024
Website: http://www.bmb.psu.edu/faculty/cameron/cameron.html
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Interests: Molecular details of genome replication in positive-strand RNA viruses and identification of components of this process suitable for antiviral drug development
Prof. Dr. Andreas Cerny
Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pharmaceutical Medicine FMH, Clinic for Internal Medicine and Liver Outpatient Clinic, Clinica Luganese, Moncucco, Via Moncucco 10, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland
Tel. +41 91 960 85 03; Fax: +41 91 966 76 31
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Interests: hepatitis C virus; hepatitis B virus; HCV vaccines; anti-viral immunity; hepatology; antiviral drugs; resistance to anti-virals
Dr. François-Loïc Cosset
Human Virology Department, Inserm U758 - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France
Tel. +33 472 72 87 32; Fax: +33 472 72 81 37
Website: http://hvd.ens-lyon.fr
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Interests: properties of the viral surface glycoproteins derived from retroviruses, flaviviruses, hepaciviruses and influenza viruses; development of novel gene transfer vectors and viral engineering techniques
Contribution:
Special Issue: Hepatitis Viruses - 2010
Dr. Juan C. de la Torre
Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, IMM-6 The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Tel. +1 858 784 9462
Website: http://www.scripps.edu/research/faculty.php?rec_id=4004
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Interests: Bornaviridae (Borna disease virus (BDV); neurotropic virus); antivirals
Prof. Dr. Biao Ding
Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Plant Biotechnology Center, 207 Rightmire Hall, Ohio State University, 1060 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Tel. +1 614 247 6077; Fax: +1 614 292 5379
Website: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/pcmb/osu_pcmb/people_faculty_dingBiao.php
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Interests: viroids; RNA silencing; systemic movement of plant viruses; replication of plant viruses; virus-plant interactions
Contribution:
Special Issue: Subviral RNAs
Dr. Andrew J. Easton
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
Tel. +44 (0)2476 524727
Website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/bio/research/pvl
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Interests: pneumoviruses; metapneumoviruses; negative strand RNA virus replication and transcription
Dr. Feng Gao
Duke University Medical Center, Human Vaccine Institute, 109B Research Park I, DUMC 103020, NC 27710, USA
Tel. +1 919 668 6433; Fax: +1 919 668 6435
Website: http://humanvaccine.duke.edu/modules/gao/index.php?id=1
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Interests: HIV; genetic variation and evolution; vaccine; drug resistance
Contribution:
Special Issue: AIDS Vaccine
Prof. Dr. Philippe Georgel
Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire Humaine, Centre de Recherche en Immunologie et Hématologie, Faculté de Médecine, 4 rue Kirschleger, 67085 Strasbourg, Cedex, France
Tel. +33 (0) 390 243 995; Fax: +33 (0) 390 244 016
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Interests: VSV; MCMV; TLR; nuclear receptors; interferon; innate immunity
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Special Issue: Antiviral Responses to Herpes Viruses
Prof. Dr. Stephen P. Goff
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, 701 W. 168 St, HHSC 1310c, New York, NY 10032, USA
Tel. +1 212 305 3794; Fax: +1 212 305 5106
Website: http://www.microbiology.columbia.edu/faculty/goff.html
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Interests: retroviral replication; tyrosine kinase oncogenes
Dr. Kim Y. Green
Norovirus Gastroenteritis Unit, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Tel. +1 (301) 594-1665; Fax: +1 (301) 480-5031
Website: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/labs/aboutlabs/lid/epidemiologySection/green.htm
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Dr. Johannes Jehle
Laboratory of Biotechnological Crop Production, Department of Phytopathology, Agricultural Service Center Palatinate (DLR Rheinpfalz), Breitenweg 71, 67435 Neustadt/Wstr., Germany
Tel. +49 6321 671482; Fax: +49 6321 671387
Website: http://www.dlr-rheinpfalz.rlp.de/Internet/global/startpage.nsf/start/Home_DLR_Rheinpfalz?OpenDocument
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Interests: dsDNA viruses; insect viruses; Baculoviridae; virus evolution; virus classification
Dr. Eiichi N. Kodama
Division of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Building 1, Room #515, 2-1 Seiryocho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
Tel. +81 22 717 7199; Fax: +81 22 717 8221
Website: http://www.med.tohoku.ac.jp/english/org/medical/27/index.html
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Interests: molecular pathogenesis and developing the new therapeutic methods for ATL and AIDS
Prof. Dr. Richard J. Kuhn
Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, Hockmeyer Hall, 249 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1971, USA
Tel. +1 (765) 494-4407; Fax: +1 (765) 496-1189
Website: http://bilbo.bio.purdue.edu/~viruswww/Kuhn_home/home.html
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Interests: alphaviruses; flaviviruses
Dr. Kenneth Lundstrom
PanTherapeutics, Rue des Remparts 4, CH-1095 Lutry, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 776 6351
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Interests: viral gene therapy; viral vaccines; gene expression using viral vectors; structural biology
Dr. Viktor Müller
Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány P. s. 1/C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
Tel. +36 1 209 0555 8798; Fax: +36 1 381 2188
Website: http://ramet.elte.hu/~viktor
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Interests: virus dynamics; HIV evolution and epidemiology
Dr. Ian M. Mackay
Emerging Viruses Group (EVG), Queensland Paediatric Infectious Diseases (QPID) Laboratory, Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre (SASVRC), Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute (QCMRI), Royal Children's Hospital, Herston Road, Herston, Queensland 4029, Australia & Clinical Medical Virology Centre (CMVC), University of Queensland, Australia
Tel. +61 7 3636 8716 (Admin); +61 7 3636 1619 (Office) ; Fax: +61 7 3636 1401
Website: http://www.uq.edu.au/vdu
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Interests: human respiratory viruses; human enteroviruses; human rhinoviruses; virus discovery; paediatric virology; diagnostic PCR
Contribution:
Special Issue: Newly Identified Respiratory Viruses
Dr. Wayne A. Marasco
Department of Cancer, Immunology & AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Tel. +1 617 632 2153 ; Fax: +1 617 632 3889
Website: http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/membership/member-profile/member/943/0/
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Interests: human antibody engineering; use of human antibodies in discovery research and in the treatment of human diseases
Dr. Luis Martinez-Sobrido
University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 672, KMRB 3-9615 Rochester, 14642 NY, USA
Tel. +1 585 276 4733; Fax: +1 585 473 9573
Website: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/mbi/faculty/martinez.htm
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Interests: microbiology and immunology; evasion of the innate immune response by viruses; type I interferon (IFN); arenaviruses; influenza viruses
Contribution:
Special Issue: Interferon Antiviral Response and Viral Evasion
Dr. Masaji Mase
National Institute of Animal Health, 3-1-5 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0856, Japan
Tel. +81 29 838 7764; Fax: +81 29 838 7764
Website: http://niah.naro.affrc.go.jp/index.html
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Interests: avian influenza virus; avian paramyxovirus; avian coronavirus; avian adenovirus; molecular epidemiology
Dr. Kenneth McCullough
Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, Sensemattstrasse 293, CH-3147 Mittelhäusern, Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 848 9262 (office); +41 31 848 9361 (lab); Fax: +41 31 848 9222
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Interests: picornaviruses; circoviruses; influenza viruses; pestiviruses; virus infection of macrophages and dendritic cells; immune responses against viruses; vaccine targeting to dendritic cells; synthetic particle-based vaccines
Contribution:
Special Issue: Influenza: Pandemics and Vaccinations
Prof. Dr. Jane McKeating
Division of Immunity and Infection, Institute of Biomedical Research Medical School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel. +44 121 414 8173; Fax: +44 121 414 3599
Website: http://www.infection.bham.ac.uk/VRG/index.html
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Dr. Luis Menéndez-Arias
Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" [Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid], c/ Nicolás Cabrera 1, Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 196 4494
Website: http://www2.cbm.uam.es/mkfactory.esdomain/webs/CBMSO/plt_LineasInvestigacion.aspx?IdObjeto=22
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Interests: HIV; reverse transcription; drug resistance; genetic variation; proteolytic processing; HIV protease
Contribution:
Special Issue: Retroviral Enzymes
Dr. Soren U. Nielsen
Clinical Medical Sciences, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK
Tel. +44 191 222 8782; Fax: +44 191 222 0723
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Interests: virus purification; hepatitis C virus, hepatology; lipoproteins; protein purification; lipids; HCV and lipids; electron microscopy
Dr. Heléne Norder
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, SE-171 82 Solna, Sweden
Tel. +46 8 457 26 38; Fax: +46 8 34 08 55
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Interests: hepatitis A virus; hepatitis B virus; hepatitis C virus; hepatitis D virus; hepatitis E virus; enterovirus; molecular epidemiology; viral evolution
Dr. Joanna Parish
Royal Society University, University of St Andrews, Bute Medical School, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9TS, Scotland, UK
Tel. +44 01334 462198
Website: http://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/staffProfileResearch.aspx?sunID=jlp10
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Interests: papillomavirus; transcription; virus-host interactions; viral persistence; mitosis
Prof. Dr. Colin Parrish
College of Veterinary Medicine, James A. Baker Institute, Cornell University, Hungerford Hill Road, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Tel. +1 607 256 5650; Fax: +1 607 256 5608
Website: http://courses2.cit.cornell.edu/parrish_lab/index.php
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Interests: parvovirus; host range variation and control; TfR receptor; virus evolution; virus structure
Dr. Vinay Pathak
HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Building 535, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Tel. +1 301 846 1710 ; Fax: +1 301 846 6013
Website: http://home.ncifcrf.gov/hivdrp/Pathak.html
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Interests: viral and host factors that generate mutations in HIV-1 and MLV; antiviral drug resistance, in vivo reverse transcription
Contribution:
Special Issue: HIV Drug Resistance
Prof. Dr. Boris Matija Peterlin
Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology UCSF U432, 533 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143-0703, USA
Tel. +1 415 502 1905; Fax: +1 415 502 1901
Website: http://labs.medicine.ucsf.edu/bmplab/
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Interests: transcription; replication of HIV; Tat; Nef; Vif; restriction; mobile genetic elements, viral assembly and release; trafficking
Prof. Dr. Stefan Poehlmann
Hannover Medical School, Institute of Virology, OE 5230, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Tel. +49 511 532 4382; Fax: +49 511 532 8736
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Interests: virus-host cell interactions; entry; lectins; HIV; filoviruses; SARS-coronavirus; influenza viruses
Prof. Dr. Eric M. Poeschla
Department of Molecular Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Guggenheim 18, 200 First Street, SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
Tel. +1 507 284 5909 ; Fax: +1 507 266 2122
Website: http://mayoresearch.mayo.edu/mayo/research/poeschla/
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Interests: HIV-1 integration; LEDGF/p75
Dr. Leo Poon
Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Tel. +852 2819 9943; Fax: +852 2855 1241
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Interests: influenza virus; coronavirus; molecular diagnosis; emerging viruses
Prof. Dr. Vincent R. Racaniello
Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, 701 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032, USA
Tel. +1 212 305 5707; Fax: +1 212 305 5106
Website: http://www.microbiology.columbia.edu/faculty/racaniello.html
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Interests: molecular biology of picornavirus replication and pathogenesis; video podcasts graduate level virology course
Prof. Dr. Polly Roy
Department of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Room 363b, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Tel. +44 (0)20 7927 2324; Fax: +44 (0)20 7927 2839
Website: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/people/roy.polly
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Interests: bluetongue virus; HIV/AIDS; infectious disease; vaccines, viruses
Prof. Dr. Stephan Schaefer
Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Virologie und Hygiene, Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Rostock, Schillingallee 70, D-18057 Rostock, Germany
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Interests: hepadnaviruses; HBx; hepatocellular carcinoma; HCV; HEV; molecular epidemiology
Dr. Donald Seto
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 10900 University Blvd., MSN 5B3, Occoquan Bldg, Rm 325, George Mason University, Manassas, VA 20110, USA
Tel. +1 703 993-8403
Website: http://binf.gmu.edu/dseto/
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Interests: genomics and bioinformatics of adenovirus; molecular evolution; coinfections; emergent viral pathogens; comparative genomics; bioinformatic tools development; diagnostics and surveillance
Contribution:
Special Issue: Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics
Prof. Dr. Thomas Stamminger
Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, University Hospital Erlangen, Schlossgarten 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
Tel. +49 9131 852 6783; Fax: +49 9131 8522101
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Interests: human cytomegalovirus; herpesviruses; DNA viruses; virus-host interactions; transcriptional regulation; nucleo-cytoplasmic transport; intrinsic immunity
Dr. Daniel Stone
Quantitative Biosciences Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Tel. +1 510 642 4923 ; Fax: +1 510 642 5198
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Interests: Development of novel viral vector systems for gene therapy; Events that initiate innate immunity and toxicity following virus exposure; Mechanisms that facilitate virus attachment, entry, replication and pathogenesis
Contribution:
Special Issue: Novel Viral Vector Systems for Gene Therapy
Dr. Artur Summerfield
Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis (IVI), Research Department, CH-3147 Mittelhaeusern, Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 848 9377; Fax: +41 31 8489222
Website: http://www.bvet.admin.ch/ivi/01751/index.html?lang=en
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Interests: viral immunology and pathogenesis; interferon; haemorrhagic fever viruses
Dr. William M. Switzer
Non-HIV Surveillance Activity Leader, Laboratory Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd., MS G-45 Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Tel. +1 404 639 0219; Fax: +1 404 639 0092
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Interests: retroviral zoonoses; molecular epidemiology; viral evolution; exogenous and endogenous mammalian retroviruses
Dr. Akifumi Takaori-Kondo
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-kawaracho, Sakyo-ku Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
Tel. +81 75 751 3152; Fax: +81 75 751 4963
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Interests: HIV-1; MLV; HIV-1 Vif; APOBEC3, host restriction factors
Dr. Chiente Kent Tseng
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Bldg., Galveston, Texas 77555-0609, USA
Tel. +1 409 747 0789; Fax: +1 409 747 0762
Website: http://microbiology.utmb.edu/faculty/tseng.shtml
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Interests: viral pathogenesis; host innate immunity; host-virus interactions; SARS-CoV; RVF virus; cytokines; chemokines
Dr. Xiao-Fang Yu
W. Harry Feinstone Department, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St., Room E5148, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel. +1 410 955 3768 ; Fax: +1 410 614 8263
Website: http://faculty.jhsph.edu/Default.cfm?faculty_id=780
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Interests: HIV; HBV; host restriction; innate immunity; vaccine; ubiquitin
Dr. Yong-Hui Zheng
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics BPS 2215, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48864, USA
Tel. +1 517 884 5314; Fax: +1 517 353 8957
Website: http://mmg.msu.edu/150.html
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Interests: retroviral restriction factors that particularly target HIV-1
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