Viruses — Journal Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Director, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
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Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Topical Collection in Viruses: Current Threats in Virology
Special Issue in Viruses: Viruses 2016 - At the Forefront of Virus-Host Interactions
Special Issue in Viruses: Breakthroughs in Viral Replication
Special Issue in Viruses: Viruses Ten-Year Anniversary
Special Issue in Viruses: Novel Concepts in Virology

Associate Editor
Senior Investigator, Chief, TSE/prion Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, NIH/NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories, 903 S 4th St., Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
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Interests: TSEs (prion diseases); Prion structure, amplification and detection, and disease prevention and therapeutics; Prion protein functions and cell biology; Protein-folding diseases
* Section 'Prions'

Associate Editor
Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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Interests: flaviviruses; alphaviruses; antiviral drug development; antivirals targeting RNA capping; viral RNA genome replication; diagnostics
* Section 'Antivirals & Vaccines'
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Viruses: Biology and Treatment of Tick-Borne Viral Pathogens

Associate Editor
AIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa and Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
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Interests: HIV; retroviruses; virus restriction; virus-host interactions; antiviral drug development; antiviral screening; innate immunity
* Section 'Antivirals & Vaccines'

Associate Editor
Chief of Medicine, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Vice Chair of Medicine, Professor of Medicine and Genetics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4300 West 7th Street, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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Interests: hepatitis C virus; HCV antivirals, antivirals targeting IRES elements, viral-host interactions, analysis of Pol II RNAs
* Section 'Antivirals & Vaccines'

Associate Editor
Director, Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program, Infectious Diseases Institute, The Ohio State University;
Professor, Center for Retrovirus Research, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, 1900 Coffey Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Interests: viral membrane fusion and entry; cellular restriction factors against viral infection; retroviral oncogenesis; viral envelope glycoproteins; lentiviral vectors and gene therapy
* Section 'Animal Viruses'
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Viruses: Mechanisms of Viral Fusion and Applications in Antivirals

Associate Editor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 672, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Interests: virology; vaccines; antivirals; influenza viruses; arenaviruses; Zika virus; innate immunity; adaptive immunity; virus–host interaction
* Section 'Animal Viruses'
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Viruses: Interferon Antiviral Response and Viral Evasion
Special Issue in Viruses: Replication-Competent Reporter-Expressing Viruses
Special Issue in Viruses: New Advances on Zika Virus Research

Associate Editor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, Room 7-P 5850 College Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
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Interests: influenza A virus; Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus; viral oncogenes; mRNA turnover and translation; stress granules; p-bodies; autophagy; unfolded protein response; inflammation; host shutoff
* Section 'Animal Viruses'
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Viruses: Viral Subversion of Stress Responses and Translational Control
Special Issue in Viruses: CSV2018: The 2nd symposium of the Canadian Society for Virology (CSV)
Special Issue in Viruses: The Role of NK Cells in Antiviral Innate Immunity

Associate Editor
Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Interests: insect viruses, mainly baculoviruses; virus-host interactions and virus replication; mechanisms of arbovirus and baculovirus pathogenesis and dissemination
* Section 'Insect Viruses'

Associate Editor
Retroviral Biology and Antivirals Laboratory, Life Sciences Discipline, Burnet Institute, GPO Box 2284, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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Interests: HIV; antiviral drugs; drug resistance; reverse transcriptase; HIV transmission; microbicides; bat retroviruses and restriction factors
* Section 'Antivirals & Vaccines'

Associate Editor
Department of Biology York University B304 Farquharson Building 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3
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Interests: plant viruses; RNA viruses; viral replication; RNA structure; protein translation; viral transcription; RNA-protein interactions; RNA-RNA interactions
* Section 'Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa'

Reviews Editor
NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick (IRF-Frederick), B-8200 Research Plaza, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Interests: arenaviruses; biodefense; bioengagement; BSL-4; filoviruses; henipaviruses; Kyasanur Forest disease virus; nairoviruses; phleboviruses; Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus; simian hemorrhagic fever virus
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals Special Issue in Viruses: Advances in Filovirus Research 2012
Topical Collection in Viruses: Advances in Ebolavirus, Marburgvirus, and Cuevavirus Research
Special Issue in Viruses: Medical Advances in Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Research

Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, C.N.R. (Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante - IPSP, C.N.R.), Strada delle Cacce, 73. Torino 10135, Italy
Tel. (+39) 0113977.910; Fax: (+39) 011343809
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Interests: geminiviruses; plant viruses; virus-plant interactions; resistance to plant viruses
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Viruses: Geminiviruses

Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, L69 7ZB Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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Interests: phage genomics; phage taxonomy; viral genomics; viral metagenomics/viromics; viral diversity; biotechnology

Department of Pharmacy, Health, and Nutritional Sciences; University of Calabria; Italy
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Interests: virus evolution; macrophages; HIV pathogenesis; antivirals; HIV chemotherapy; neuroAIDS; mechanisms of virus entry; chemokines and chemokine receptors; role of astrocytes and neurones in HIV infection
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Medicina: Features of Pathogenesis of Human Viral Infections and Antiviral Drugs

Centre de recherche en cancérologie de Lyon, UMR 5286, UMR_S 1052, Equipe 15, 151 cours Albert Thomas, 69424 Lyon Cedex 03, France
Fax: +33 472681971
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Interests: flaviviridae; hepatitis C virus; hepatitis B virus; virus-host cell interactions; hepatology; liver physiopathology; metabolism
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Special Issue in Viruses: Hepatitis Viruses
Special Issue in Viruses: Hepatitis C Pathology

Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, 201 Rightmire Hall, 1060 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH, USA
Tel. 614-292-3281; Fax: 614-292-5379
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Interests: Geminivirus, gene silencing, silencing suppression, DNA methylation, virus induced gene silencing (VIGS)

Department of Microbiology and Immunology B4106, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Tel. 301-295-3401; Fax: +1 301 295 1545
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Interests: Virus-host cell interactions; enveloped virus entry, viral glycoprotein structure and function and virus receptors; viral vaccine and therapeutics development; HIV, paramyxoviruses, emerging viruses, henipaviruses - Nipah and Hendra, filoviruses - Ebola and Marburg, Australian Bat Lyssavirus; membrane fusion; animal models; Filoviruses

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, 201 Althouse Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Fax: +1 814 863 7024
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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

Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Interests: herpesviruses; latency; chromatin control of gene expression; virus-host interactions

Human Virology Department, Inserm U758 - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon, Cedex 07, France
Fax: +33 472 72 81 37
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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
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Special Issue in Viruses: Humoral Responses Against HCV

Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology, 4511 Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA
Tel. 3147475443; Fax: +1 314 362 9797
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Interests: adenovirus; virotherapy; gene therapy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Viruses: Adenoviral Vectors
Special Issue in Viruses: Adenoviral Vectors