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Department of Infectious disease and Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: molecular biology of retroviruses; antiviral therapy; caveolin; gene therapy; HIV
Prof. Dr. Suresh K. Mittal
Prof. Dr. Suresh K. Mittal
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Department of Comparative Pathobiology,Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Interests: influenza viruses; adenoviruses; recombinant vaccines; viral vectors; innate and adaptive immunity; animal models
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Interests: HPV; DNA tumor viruses; chromatin; DNA repair; epigenetic regulation; genomic instability; cancer
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Dr. Iain Morgan
Dr. Iain Morgan
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Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Interests: human papillomavirus; HPV16
Dr. Mhairi A. Morris
Dr. Mhairi A. Morris
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School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Interests: viral oncology; viral oncoproteins; tissue invasion and metastasis; tumour microenvironment; tumour viruses, chronic inflammation and cancer; herpesviruses and autoimmune disease; cell signalling
Prof. Dr. Elke Mühlberger
Prof. Dr. Elke Mühlberger
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Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, 620 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Interests: filoviruses; hemorrhagic fever viruses; nonsegmented negative sense RNA virus replication and transcription; reverse genetics systems
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Neuman
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Neuman
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Biology Department, College of Arts, Sciences and Education, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, TX 75503, USA
Interests: coronaviruses; invertebrate nidoviruses; RNA virus evolution
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nitsche
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nitsche
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Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Viruses (ZBS 1), Robert Koch Institute, Seestr. 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany
Interests: viral diagnostics; NGS; highly pathogenic viruses
Dr. Jürg P.F. Nüesch
Dr. Jürg P.F. Nüesch
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Infection, Inflammation and Cancer (IIC), Department Virus-Associated Carcinogenesis (F170) German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: virology; small DNA viruses; virus-host cell interactions; signaling cascades; intracellular transport; cytoskeleton dynamics; virotherapy of cancer; paroviruses
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Dr. Dennis O'Callaghan
Dr. Dennis O'Callaghan
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Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA
Interests: herpesvirus molecular biology; alphaherpesviruses such as varicella-zoster virus, equine herpesviruses, herpes simplex virus; mechanism of inhibition of herpesviruses by interferon; pathogenesis of herpesviruses
Prof. Dr. Tanja Opriessnig
Prof. Dr. Tanja Opriessnig
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1. Division of Vaccines and Diagnostics, Moredun Research Institute, Pentland Science Park, Bush Loan, Penicuik EH26 0PZ, Midlothian, UK
2. Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University, Veterinary Medical Research Institute Building 1, 1907 ISU C-Drive, Ames, IA 50011-1250, USA
Interests: porcine circoviruses; Erysipelothrix spp.; swine Hepatitis E Virus (HEV); Porcine Parvovirus (PPV); Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV); mulberry heart disease; porcine epidemic diarhea virus
Dr. Dewi Kartikawati Paramita
Dr. Dewi Kartikawati Paramita
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Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Interests: Epstein-Barr virus and other viruses; infection-related cancer; immune aspect of pathogen infections and diseases; molecular mechanism of host-pathogen interaction
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Dr. Ricardo Parreira
Dr. Ricardo Parreira
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Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) Research Center, Unidade de Microbiologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHTM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA), 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: RNA viruses; arthropod-borne viruses; viral ecology; phylogenetics
Prof. Dr. Angela Pearson
Prof. Dr. Angela Pearson
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Centre Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Laval, QC H7V 1B7, Canada
Interests: herpesviruses; herpes simplex virus 1; canid herpesvirus 1; virus-host interactions
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Prof. Dr. María-Teresa Pérez-Gracia
Prof. Dr. María-Teresa Pérez-Gracia
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Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Farmacia, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU, CEU Universities, Avenida Seminario s/n, 46113 Moncada, Spain
Interests: antibiotic resistance; drug development; drug repurposing; clinical microbiology
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Vitalant Research Institute, UCSF Directory, 270 MasonicAvenue, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Interests: the antiretroviral effects of IFN-α in vivo; host gene expression; viral production and viral evolution
Prof. Dr. Ultan F. Power
Prof. Dr. Ultan F. Power
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Wellcome Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK
Interests: human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
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Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Interests: surveillance of African swine fever; ASF and CSF mechanisms of host-virus interactions
Dr. Sante Roperto
Dr. Sante Roperto
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Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80137 Napoli, Italy
Interests: bovine papillomavirus (BPV); BPV oncogenesis; BPV infection; cancer; reproductive disorders; immune system
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Rothenburg
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rothenburg
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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Davis School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-5271, USA
Interests: poxviruses; host–virus interactions; evolution; translational control; PKR
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Prof. Dr. Cristiano Salata
Prof. Dr. Cristiano Salata
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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy
Interests: emerging zoonotic viruses; highly pathogenic viruses; virus/host interactions; antiviral discovery; molecular diagnostics and surveillance
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Dr. Samendra Sherchan
Dr. Samendra Sherchan
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1. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tulane University, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
2. BioEnvironmental Science Program, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA
Interests: wastewater based epidemiology; climate change; infectious diseases
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Prof. Dr. Hong-Bing Shu
Prof. Dr. Hong-Bing Shu
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The Medical Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Interests: innate antiviral immunity; inflammation
Prof. Dr. Alison Sinclair
Prof. Dr. Alison Sinclair
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School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK
Interests: virology; viral replication; gene expression; latency disruption; herpesviruses; Epstein Barr virus
Dr. Maria Söderlund-Venermo
Dr. Maria Söderlund-Venermo
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Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Interests: clinical and molecular virology; small DNA viruses; human parvoviruses; tissue persistence; diagnostic methods; epidemiology; clinical impact
Dr. Peter Speck
Dr. Peter Speck
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College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
Interests: herpes viruses; bacteriophages
Dr. Zania Stamataki
Dr. Zania Stamataki
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Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Interests: viral immunology; viral hepatitis; SARS-CoV-2
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Head of the Department for Molecular & Medical Virology, Leibniz University, Bochum, Germany
Interests: virology; microbiology; molecular biology
Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Suzutani
Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Suzutani
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Department of Microbiology, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
Interests: molecular biology; infection biology and antivirals of herpes simplex virus; varicella-zoster virus and cytomegalovirus