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Dr. Dann Turner

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Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Interests: bacteriophage research; Acinetobacter bacteriophages; bacteriophage genomics; biotechnology; taxonomy; phage-host interactions
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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. 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. Anastasia N. Vlasova

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Center for Food Animal Health, Department of Animal Sciences, OARDC, College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
Interests: innate immunity and pathogenesis of enteric viruses; interactions among host, pathogens, microbiome and micro/macronutrients; development of interventions for human and swine enteric viral diseases; molecular characterization of emerging and re-emerging animal, human and zoonotic (enteric and respiratory) viruses
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Dr. Abdul A. Waheed

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HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Interests: virology; retroviruses; virus assembly; cell biology; host factors; small-molecule inhibitors
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Prof. Dr. Jun Wang

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Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08854-8020, USA
Interests: drug discovery and pharmacology of SARS-CoV-2 antivirals; drug discovery and pharmacology of enterovirus antivirals; drug discovery and pharmacology of influenza antivirals; drug resistance and assay development
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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, Japan
Interests: vaccines; antiviral drugs; biommarkers; public health initiatives; risk evaluation by biomarkers; early therapeutic intervention; new teatment strategies
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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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Dr. Fei Yan

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Institute of Plant Virology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
Interests: diagnosis of plant virus disease; plant virus-host interaction; applications of plant virus in biotechnology
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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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Dr. Shuofeng Yuan

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State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Interests: broad-spectrum antiviral development
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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. Guihong Zhang

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College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: clinical diagnosis techniques and molecular biology research on pig diseases; ASFV; PRRSV
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Dr. Wei Zhang

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Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Interests: cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM); cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET); alphaviruses; membrane fusion; retrovirus assembly and maturation
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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. Gan Zhao

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School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Interests: viral pneumonia; regeneration and repair; angiogenesis; immune regulation; targeted therapy
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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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