Viruses

Prof. Dr. Susana Tereno Valente

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Department of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, USA
Interests: HIV transcription; HIV-1 transcriptional inhibitors; HIV-1 latency; HIV-1 functional cure; tat inhibitors; capsid inhibitors; restriction factors; anti-HIV agents
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Prof. Dr. James L. Van Etten

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Department of Plant Pathology, 205 Morrison Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: PBCV-1; chlorella viruses (chloroviruses); algal viruses (phycodnaviruses); large dsDNA viruses

Prof. Dr. Nikos Vasilakis

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Department of Pathology and Center of Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Center for Tropical Diseases, Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd., Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA
Interests: basic research on evolution and pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses; quasispecies in transmission dynamics and emergence; and discovery and characterization of novel/new viruses
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Prof. Dr. Jeanmarie Verchot

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Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: plant bunyaviruses; potyviruses; potexviruses; unfolded protein response; cell biology; virus-host interactions; bioinformatics; infectious clone technology; viroids
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Dr. Leyi Wang

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Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, Urbana, IL 61802, USA
Interests: animal viruses; coronavirus; picornavirus; influenza; diagnosis; new virus discovery; vaccine development
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Dr. Pengfei Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Genetics and Development of Complex Phenotypes, Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Interests: coronavirus; HIV-1; antibody; vaccine
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Dr. Ying Wang

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Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: viroid; plant virus; viral replication; viral movement; RNA silencing

Prof. Dr. Hidemi Watanabe

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Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0814, Hokkaido, Japan
Interests: evolution of viruses; adenovirus; identification of viruses; single-cell analyses

Prof. Dr. Toshiki Watanabe

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Department of Hematology/Oncology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan
Interests: HTLV; STLV; ATL; HAM; uveitis

Dr. Koichi Watashi

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Research Center for Drug and Vaccine Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan
Interests: hepatitis virus; coronavirus; HBV; HCV; HDV; SARS-CoV-2; antiviral; natural products

Prof. Dr. Susan Weiss

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Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: coronavirus pathogenesis; murine coronavirus; human respiratory coronaviruses; MERS-CoV; SARS-CoV-2; common CoVs; viral antagonism of innate immunity; OAS/RNase L; endogenous dsRNA induced pathogenesis; Zika virus
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Dr. William C. Wilson

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National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Manhattan, KS 66505, USA
Interests: arbovirology; bluetongue virus; epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus; Japanese encephalitis virus; rift valley fever virus; vesicular stomatitis virus; molecular evolution; arthropod-borne animal diseases; arbovirus; culicoides-borne viruses; insect vectors; virus–vector interactions
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Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Wozniakowski

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Department of Diagnosis and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Biological and Veteterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Interests: veterinary virology; epidemiology; poultry and swine viruses
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Dr. Nicholas C. Wu

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Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: immunology; virology; molecular evolution; protein structure; bioinformatics

Prof. Dr. Ke Xu

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State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Interests: viral-host interplay; SARS-CoV; influenza A virus; site-targeted antivirals
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Prof. Dr. Jianxin You

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Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: cancer immunotherapy; oncogenic virus-driven tumorigenesis; DNA tumor viruses; tumor virology

Dr. Xiao-Fang Yu

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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
Interests: HIV; HBV; host restriction; innate immunity; vaccine; ubiquitin
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Prof. Dr. Steven L. Zeichner

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1. Department of Pediatrics, Child Health Research Center, and the Pendleton Pediatric Infectious Disease Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
2. Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Interests: pediatric infectious diseases; HIV molecular biology and vaccine development

Prof. Dr. X. Frank Zhang

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Interests: single-molecule detection techniques; biophysical characterization of viral entry and virus-host cell interactions; mechanobiology of the cardiovascular system
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Prof. Dr. Huoqing Zheng

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College of Animal Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Interests: honeybee pathology; honeybee-parasite-virus interaction; cross-species pathogen transmission
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Prof. Dr. Yong-Hui Zheng

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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Interests: enveloped viruses (HIV-1, Ebola viruses, influenza viruses, SARS coronaviruses); viral fusion protein expression and functions; HIV-1 restriction factors

Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng

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Tumor Virus RNA Biology Section, RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: HPV; KSHV; tumor viruses; RNA splicing; RNA-protein interactions; noncoding RNA; RNA processing
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Prof. Dr. Peng Zhou

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1. Guangzhou Laboratory, Guangzhou, China
2. Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Interests: bat virus infection and immunity; virus host interaction; SARS-CoV
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Prof. Dr. Xi Zhou

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State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, Wuhan, China
Interests: RNA viruses; picornavirus; antiviral immunity; antiviral RNAi and viral helicase

Prof. Dr. Fan Zhu

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State Key Laboratory of Virology and Biosafety, Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China
Interests: pathogenesis of DNA and RNA reverse-transcribing viruses
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Dr. Véronique Ziegler-Graff

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Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, 12, rue du général Zimmer, CEDEX, 67084 Strasbourg, France
Interests: plant viruses; viral movement; suppressor of RNA silencing; virus-plant interactions; aphid transmission

Prof. Dr. Fabien Zoulim

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1. Viral Hepatitis Research Laboratory, Lyon University, Lyon, France
2. Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
3. INSERM Unit 1052, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Lyon, France
Interests: hepatitis B virus; viral persistence; antiviral therapy; HBV cure
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Prof. Dr. Yongchang Cao

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State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Life Sciences School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: SARS-CoV-2; livestock and poultry coronavirus; virus replication; animal virology and animal science; bioinformatics; epidemiology
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Dr. Nina Chanishvili

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Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology and Virology, Gotua Street 3, Tbilisi 0160, Georgia
Interests: bacteriophage research; phage therapy
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Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Galdiero

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Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: viral entry; viral pathogenesis; peptides; anti-viral peptide; diagnostic virology
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