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Dr. Wei-Shau Hu

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HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, NCI/CCR, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Interests: retrovirus; RNA packaging and virus assembly; reverse transcription and recombination

Prof. Dr. Ronald M. Iorio

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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

Dr. Taisuke Izumi

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Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
Interests: persistence of HIV and SARS-CoV2 infections; Influenza A virus; HIV functional cure strategy; treatment of long-term COVID-19 effects
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Prof. Dr. Marc Jamin

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Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biologie Structurale, 38000 Grenoble, France
Interests: rabies virus; nipah virus; paramyxoviruses
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Prof. Dr. Dong-Yan Jin

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School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam 999077, Hong Kong, China
Interests: molecular virology and oncology
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Prof. Dr. Eric Johannsen

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Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Interests: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); transcription; latency; transformation; replication
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Prof. Dr. Clinton Jones

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Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Interests: alpha-herpesviruses (BoHV-1 and HSV-1); latency; virus-host interactions; viral gene expression
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Prof. Dr. Adriana Kajon

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Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA
Interests: adenovirus; genetic variability; molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of human adenovirus acute respiratory infections
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Dr. Ravi Kant

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1. Department of Basic Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
2. Department of Virology, Medicum, University of Helsinki, 00290 Helsinki, Finland
3. Department of Tropical Parasitology, Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 81-519 Gdynia, Poland
Interests: One-Health; genomics; metagenomics; microbiology
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Prof. Dr. Fatah Kashanchi

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Laboratory of Molecular Virology, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Discovery Hall Room 248, 10900 University Blvd, Manassas, VA 20110, USA
Interests: extracellular vesicles and HIV-1 pathogenesis; humanized mouse models
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Prof. Dr. Marcus Kaul

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Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: neuroinflammation; neurodegenerative disease; host-pathogen interactions; HIV-1; drug abuse; innate immunity; microglia/macrophages; neuroprotection; stem cells
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Prof. Dr. Kenneth M. Kaye

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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus

Dr. Ruian Ke

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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe, NM 87545, USA
Interests: multiscale modeling of viral and immune dynamics; treatment strategies for viral infections; HIV; HCV; influenza
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Dr. Scott P. Kenney

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Independent Researcher, Wooster, OH, USA
Interests: molecular virology; virus host interactions; zoonotic diseases; hepatitis; hepatitis E virus; African swine fever virus; coronavirus
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Prof. Dr. Shannon C. Kenney

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McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Interests: human herpesvirus; EBV (epstein-barr virus); molecular regulation

Dr. Jason Kindrachuk

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Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Interests: emerging and re-emerging viruses; molecular pathogenesis
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Klimkait

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Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Petersplatz 10, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland
Interests: RNA viruses; retroviruses; HIV tropism; viral drug resistance; viral reservoirs and eradication; molecular diagnostics in rural settings; 90-90-90 (UNAIDS); archiving viruses
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Dr. Huihui Kong

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Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150008, China
Interests: avian and human influenza A viruses; host adaptation; evolution and molecular epidemiology; antiviral strategies; risk assessment and One Health–oriented prevention and control of avian influenza
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Prof. Dr. Ioly Kotta-Loizou

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1. Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
2. Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
Interests: mycoviruses; mycovirus infection; mycovirus population studies; mycovirus evolution; mycovirus–fungus interactions; bacterial gene expression; RNA damage and repair; oxidative stress; antibiotics resistance; CRISPR-Cas
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Dr. Laurie T. Krug

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National Cancer Institute, HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892-1868, USA
Interests: gammaherpesvirus pathogenesis; gammaherpesvirus cancers; vaccines; animal models; virus-host interactions
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Dr. Claude Krummenacher

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Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; herpes simplex virus; glycoproteins; receptors; neutralizing antibodies; cell adhesion

Prof. Dr. Mark R. Krystal

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ViiV Healthcare, 36 East Industrial Road, Branford CT 06450, USA
Interests: HIV drug discovery; capsid inhibitor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Kuhn

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Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: filamentous phages; protein
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Prof. Dr. Richard J. Kuhn

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Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
Interests: Sindbis virus; chikungunya virus; viral entry; virus replication; virion assembly
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Dr. Deanna Kulpa

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Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: T cell biology; HIV reservoir; HIV persistence
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Dr. Anil Kumar

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Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H7, Canada
Interests: arboviruses; virus-host interaction; innate immunity

Dr. Sebla B. Kutluay

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Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Interests: human immunodeficiency virus-host interactions

Prof. Dr. Marc Kvansakul

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Department of Biochemistry & Chemistry, La Trobe University, Kingsbury Drive, Melbourne 3086, Australia
Interests: apoptosis; structural biology; polarity; defensins
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Prof. Dr. Ke Lan

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State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: tumor viruses; herpesviruses; KSHV; latency; viral oncogenesis

Dr. Young-Min Lee

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Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Interests: Japanese encephalitis virus; flavivirus; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus; arterivirus; replication; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; vaccine
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