Editorial Board for section 'Viral Pathogens'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: virus structure; electron microscopy; cryo-electron microscopy; cryo-electron tomography; subtomogram averaging; enveloped virus entry; influenza virus; bunyavirus

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OIE Reference Laboratory for Classical Swine Fever, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: virology; viral pathogenesis and immunology; innate and adaptive immunity; virus host interaction; viral evolution; vaccine and diagnostic tools design; viruses in animal health
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Laboratory of Virology, “Lazzaro Spallanzani” National Institute for Infectious Diseases, IRCCS, 00149 Rome, Italy
Interests: HPV; HIV; viral hepatitis; virus molecular evolution; host–pathogen interaction; zoonoses
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Department of Plant Pathology, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: computational biology; bioinformatics; small RNA biology; antiviral immunity; virus-host interactions; molecular virology; gene silencing
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Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
Interests: virology; mononegavirales; rhabdovirus; vesicular stomatitis virus; rabies virus; viral entry; membrane fusion; structural virology; viral glycoproteins; viral assembly; viral factory; liquid organelles

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Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: African swine fever virus; rift valley fever virus; emerging and transboundary animal and zoonotic viral pathogens; virus-host interactions; genomics; transcriptomics and proteomics; vaccinology and diagnostics

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Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra 2617, Australia
Interests: molecular pathogenesis of respiratory viruses; molecular basis of asthma; respiratory virus assembly

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Department of Biomedical Sciences, One Health Center for Zoonoses and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Basseterre 334, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Interests: molecular epidemiology; genetic diversity and interspecies transmission of enteric and respiratory viruses of animals and humans

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Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
Interests: microvascular dysfunction in infection and inflammation
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Centre for Virus Research, Institute of Infection Immunity and Inflammation, College of medical Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
Interests: human papillomavirus replication and associated cancers; herpes simplex virus replication/life cycle; viral gene regulation; 3D culture models of virus infection

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Department of Pathobiological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Interests: viral immunology; innate immunity; respiratory viruses
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Viral Oncology Lab, University of Manchester, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester M13 9WL, UK
Interests: HPV; papillomaviruses; herpesviruses; HSV1; HSV2; HTLV-1; antivirals

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Resistant Infectious Agents and Chemotherapy Research Unit, AGIR UR4294, Jules Verne University of Picardie, 80000 Amiens, France
Interests: molecular virology; host-pathogen interaction; virus entry; virus release; neutralizing antibodies; extracellular vesicles; N-glycosylation; Flaviviridae; Polyomaviridae

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Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy, Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Interests: neurovirology; molecular and cell biology of viruses in the nervous system; specialized live-cell fluorescence microscopy methods; cryo electron microscopy structural biology methods; primary neuron cell culture methods; alpha herpesviruses; interact with the molecular and cell biology of neurons

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Clinical and Applied Virology, Infectious Diseases Research Unit, Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, L-4354 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Interests: infectious diseases; virology; surveillance; diagnosis; public health aspects of infectious diseases; molecular epidemiology; outbreak investigations; measles; rubella; human parvovirus B19; mumps; hepatitis viruses; vaccination program monitoring

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National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: veterinary public health; zoonosis; implementation research; social science
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Retired, Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Interests: virus entry and fusion; paramyxoviruses; viral glycoproteins and receptors; viral pathogenesis

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International Center for Infectiology Research, Lyon, France
Interests: virology; cell biology; molecular biology; HTLV; oncoviruses-mediated cell transformation; cell signaling; NF-kB signaling; post-translational modifications; centrosome; protein interaction networks
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Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Former American Base of Gournes, Heraklion 71500, Crete, Greece
Interests: fish diseases; phage therapy; microbiology; marine aquaculture; biotechnology; vaccine development
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Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), German Research Center for Environmental Health, Haematologikum, Research Unit Gene Vectors, Marchioninistraße 25, 81377 München, Germany
Interests: notch signalling; Kaposi's Sarcoma associated virus; Epstein Barr virus; epigenetics of herpesviral infection; latent infection; protein-protein interactions in virus/host interactions

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Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Prince Edward Island, Atlantic Veterinary College, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
Interests: veterinary virology; aquatic viruses; biology of viral pathogens; mechanisms of virus virulence; viral pathogenesis; improvement in methods of virus detection and control
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA 98102, USA
Interests: enteric viruses; rotavirus; norovirus; surveillance; viral emergence and evolution

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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, I-35121 Padova, Italy
Interests: bioinformatics analysis of pathogens; pathogen detection and characterization; West Nile virus; Zika virus; human papillomavirus; measles virus; Neisseria meningitidis; SARS-CoV-2; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: detection and mitigation of foodborne viruses; microbial safety of leafy greens produced in urban agriculture systems
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Interests: HIV; HCV; HBV; viral pathogenesis; liver fibrogenesis; innate immunity; IFN signaling pathway


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Department of Clinical Laboratory, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: molecular diagnostics; real-time PCR; point-of-care test; virology; virus-host interaction; pathogen surveillance; molecular epidemiology; emerging viruses
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Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CISA), 28130 Valdeolmos, Spain
Interests: diagnosis, surveillance and virus-host interaction; west nile virus and other flaviviruses
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Virology Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale”, Teramo, Italy
Interests: diagnosis of viral infectious diseases via innovative molecular methods; coronaviruses; morbilliviruses; reverse genetics; swine influenza viruses; next generations sequencing; arbovirus; orbiviruses; West Nile virus; viral diagnostics; virus discovery; virus evolution; pathogenesis studies
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases of Animals Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, S.p. per Casamassima Km 3, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italy
Interests: virus; discovery; zoonosis; DNA; RNA; enteric

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Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Interests: HTLV; sexual health; HIV; HAM/TSP; ATL; epidemiology; systematic reviews; transmission prevention strategies; PEP; PrEP; HTLV advocacy and patient representation
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