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Section Board for 'Animal Viruses' (84)
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Interests: Virus–host cell interactions: implications for tropism, treatment, and targeting
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Interests: flaviviridae; hepatitis C virus; hepatitis B virus; virus-host cell interactions; hepatology; liver physiopathology; metabolism
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Interests: companion animal tumour virology; virus discovery; pathogenesis of chronic viral infections; retroviruses; gammaherpesviruses; hepadnaviruses
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Special Issue in Viruses: Feature Papers in the Section ‘Animal Viruses’
Special Issue in Viruses: Feline Viruses and Viral Diseases 2.0
2. School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
3. School of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, QLD 4343, Australia.
Interests: infectious diseases pathobiology; viral persistence; flaviviruses; transplacental virus infections; co-infections; viral zoonoses; arbo-viruses; influenza viruses
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Special Issue in Viruses: Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Related Pestiviruses
Special Issue in Viruses: Feature Papers in the Section ‘Animal Viruses’
Interests: hepatitis A virus, astrovirus, norovirus, rotavirus, gastroenteritis agents, enteric hepatitis agents
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Special Issue in Viruses: Novel Concepts in Virology
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
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Interests: hepatitis virus; HBV; HCV; HDV
Interests: arthropod-borne viruses; vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases; viruses of medical importance; diagnostics; epidemiology; virus discovery; taxonomy
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Topical Collection in Viruses: Emerging Arboviruses, Volume II
Interests: HIV restriction factors; DNA deaminases; mutagenesis; enzyme mechanisms
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Interests: fish and shrimp viruses (diagnosis, vaccines, immune response); Algal viruses (Phycodnaviridae); Rhabdoviruses; Tospoviruses
Interests: herpesviruses; latency; chromatin control of gene expression; virus-host interactions
Interests: retroviruses; RNA viruses; innate immunity; virus evolution; gene therapy
Interests: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV); virus-host interactions; processing bodies; mRNA decay; autophagy; antiviral responses; endothelial cells
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Interests: porcine viruses; virus–innate immunity interaction; swine influenza; PRRSV
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Special Issue in Viruses: Feature Papers in the Section ‘Animal Viruses’
Interests: HIV-1; TRIM5; SAMHD1; MxB; SERINC5; uncoating; nuclear import
Interests: HIV; HCV; cyclophilin; liver fibrosis; hepatocellular carcinoma; double membrane vesicles; HBV
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Interests: VSV; MCMV; TLR; nuclear receptors; interferon; innate immunity
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Interests: retroviral replication; tyrosine kinase oncogenes
Interests: norovirus; astrovirus; hepatitis A and E viruses; environmental and food virology; epidemiology; virus-host interactions
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Special Issue in Viruses: Gastroenteritis Viruses 2021
Interests: mechanisms of viral carcinogenesis; molecular and cellular biology - gene function, gene regulation and gene expression; molecular cloning; plasmid construction; quantitative PCR; protein immuno-detection; yeast two hybrid, targeted gene silencing and gene transfer; antiviral therapeutics in particular HIV protease inhibitors; human papilloma virus pathology and therapeutics
Interests: clinical infectiology and laboratory medicine with special interests in molecular diagnosis; pathogenesis, and prophylaxis of retroviruses; haemotropic mycoplasmas; and viral and vector-borne infectious agents, particularly in domestic and wild felids
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Interests: biophysics; reconstitution; x-ray crystallography; cryo-EM; protein structure; virus structure; virus assembly; virus egress; virus entry; membrane fusion; membrane fission
Interests: HIV; coronaviruses; viral fusion; viral entry; vaccine development
Interests: emerging and re-emerging viruses; molecular pathogenesis
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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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Interests: Sindbis virus; Chikungunya virus; viral entry; virus replication; virion assembly
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Interests: tumor viruses; herpesviruses; KSHV; latency; viral oncogenesis
Interests: Japanese encephalitis virus; flavivirus; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus; arterivirus; replication; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; vaccine
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Interests: influenza D and comparative influenza biology; virus assembly and maturation; antiviral therapeutics and vaccine; veterinary virology
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Interests: positive-strand RNA viruses; flaviviruses; hepatitis C virus; Zika virus; yellow fever virus; dengue virus
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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
Interests: viral membrane fusion and entry; cellular restriction factors against viral infection; retroviral oncogenesis; viral envelope glycoproteins; lentiviral vectors and gene therapy
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College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Interests: vector-borne viruses; emerging viruses; viral zoonoses; viruses at the environment/animal/human interface; medical and veterinary entomology; West Nile virus; Usutu virus; Borna disease virus; MERS coronavirus
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Interests: pathobiology
Interests: virus evolution; viral metagenomics; wildlife diseases; veterinary virology; viral protein structure and function; recombinant vaccines; animal immunology
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Special Issue in Viruses: Emerging Wildlife Viral Diseases
Interests: Genetic and phenotipic diversity of HIV and HCV
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Special Issue in Viruses: HIV-HCV Co-infection
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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Special Issue in Viruses: 6th Pan-American Dengue Research Network Meeting
Special Issue in Viruses: Mosquito-Specific Viruses: Their Role in Nature and Potential Use for Vector Control or Control of Arboviral Pathogens
Interests: airway biology; virus-host interactions; innate antiviral defense; species tropism; tissue engineering; primary cell systems; respiratory viruses
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Interests: rotavirus; rotavirus vaccine; molecular epidemiology
Interests: HBV; cccDNA; APOBEC3; viral DNA integration
Interests: peste des petits ruminants virus; PPRV; FMDV; vaccines; pathogenesis of PPRV
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Interests: viral-host interplay; SARS-CoV; influenza A virus; site-targeted antivirals
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Interests: virology; virus-host interaction; pathogen surveillance; molecular epidemiology; emerging viruses; pathogen detection methods and enterovirus
2. Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA
Interests: virology; vaccines; antivirals; influenza viruses; arenaviruses; Zika virus; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; innate immunity; adaptive immunity; interferon; virus-host interactions
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Special Issue in Viruses: Replication-Competent Reporter-Expressing Viruses
Special Issue in Viruses: New Advances on Zika Virus Research
Special Issue in Vaccines: Feature Papers Collection on Influenza Vaccines
Special Issue in Antibodies: Antibodies, B Cell Responses and Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infections
Topical Collection in Viruses: Coronaviruses
Topical Collection in Viruses: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Special Issue in Pathogens: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Disease
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
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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
Special Issue in Viruses: Viruses and the Unfolded Protein Response
Interests: influenza virus; viral polymerase; virus:host interactions; species tropism; cross-species transmission; viral adaptation; RNA viruses
Interests: virus entry mechanisms; membrane fusion; host restriction factors; host factors required for virus entry; nuclear import; fluorescence microscopy; live cell imaging; membrane biophysics
Interests: HIV; reverse transcription; drug resistance; genetic variation; proteolytic processing; HIV protease
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Interests: Merkel cell polyomavirus; Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
Interests: virus dynamics; HIV evolution and epidemiology
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Special Issue in Viruses: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of Viruses
Special Issue in Viruses: Computational Biology of Viruses: From Molecules to Epidemics
Interests: assembly of enveloped viruses including retroviruses, lipid membrane-protein interactions, RNA-protein interactions, cell contact-mediated virus spread, virion incorporation of host proteins
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Special Issue in Viruses: The 11th International Retroviral Nucleocapsid and Assembly Symposium
2. BIOTARGEN EA 7450, Normandie Université, 14280 Saint Contest, France
Interests: equine infectious diseases; immunology; vaccination; equine influenza
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Special Issue in Viruses: Equine Viruses
Special Issue in Pathogens: Research on Herpesviruses of Equids
Interests: papillomavirus; transcription; virus-host interactions; viral persistence; mitosis
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Interests: Reoviruses; Caliciviruses; viral translation; stress responses to viral infections; and the cell biology of viral infection
Interests: parvovirus; host range variation and control; TfR receptor; virus evolution; virus structure
Interests: influenza viruses; emerging viruses; interspecies transmission of viral pathogens; virus entry and replication; virus host-range; virus ecology and evolution
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Interests: transcription; replication of HIV; Tat; Nef; Vif; restriction; mobile genetic elements, viral assembly and release; trafficking
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Interests: HIV-1 integration, LEDGF/p75, emerging viruses, innate immuity
Interests: HIV; filoviruses; coronaviruses; influenza viruses; virus-host cell interactions; entry; lectins
Interests: molecular biology of picornavirus replication and pathogenesis; video podcasts graduate level virology course
Interests: RNA viruses; virus assembly; virus entry; virus culture; pyroptosis; inflammasomes; programmed cell death
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Interests: HIV; Gag; NMR; cancer; drug design
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Interests: mutations; structure; survival strategies of RNA viruses
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Interests: human bocavirus (HBoV); Herpes simplex Virus; Respiratory viruses; viruses and cancer
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Interests: pathogenesis of influenza and astroviruses in normal and high-risk populations; viral evolution; microbiome/virome
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Special Issue in Viruses: New Insights into Astroviruses Research
Interests: emerging infectious diseases; global maternal & child health; tropical medicine; pregnancy complications; maternal and infant mortality; epidemiology; medical anthropology; obstetrical pathology
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Special Issue in Vaccines: Vaccines for Ebola Virus and Related Diseases
Special Issue in Viruses: Zika Virus Infections in Pregnancy and Congenital Zika Syndrome in the Latin American Region
Interests: genomics and bioinformatics of adenovirus; molecular evolution; coinfections; emergent viral pathogens; comparative genomics; bioinformatic tools development; diagnostics and surveillance
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Interests: influenza virus; avian influenza; diabetes; obesity; viral pathogenesis
Interests: human cytomegalovirus; herpesviruses; DNA viruses; virus-host interactions; transcriptional regulation; nucleo-cytoplasmic transport; intrinsic immunity
Interests: Structural molecular biology; biophysics; virus assembly; RNA-protein interactions; RNA folding
Interests: development of novel viral vector systems for gene therapy; events that initiate innate immunity and toxicity following virus exposure; mechanisms that facilitate virus attachment, entry, replication and pathogenesis
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Interests: viral immunology and pathogenesis; interferon; haemorrhagic fever viruses
Interests: Enterovirus; rhinovirus; parechovirus; integrin; bioprocess; cell culture techniques; virus evolution; clinical virology; diagnostics; oncolytic virotherapy; antibody technologies
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Special Issue in Viruses: Virus Receptors and Viral Tropism
Interests: viral gastroenteritis; viral pathogenesis/disease mechanisms; human genetics of infectious diseases
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Interests: emerging retroviruses; zoonotic retrovirus infections; molecular epidemiology of retrovirus infections; retrovirus evolution; retrovirus diagnostics; phylodynamics; transmission networks; bioinformatics; HIV prevention
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Special Issue in Viruses: HIV Molecular Epidemiology for Prevention 2020
Interests: influenza virus; filovirus; ebolavirus; marburgvirus; pathogenicity; host range; host-pathogen interaction; antiviral immunity
Interests: HIV/retrovirus transmission and spread; virus-induced cell-cell fusion; syncytia; virus-host interactions; various quantitative imaging methods; viruses as overall positive biological entities
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Interests: HIV transcription; HIV-1 transcriptional inhibitors; HIV-1 latency; HIV-1 functional cure; tat inhibitors; capsid inhibitors; restriction factors; anti-HIV agents
Interests: papillomavirus; virus-host interactions; tumor viruses; innate immunity
Interests: Enveloped viruses (HIV-1, Ebola viruses, influenza viruses, SARS coronaviruses); viral fusion protein expression and functions; HIV-1 restriction factors
Interests: HPV; KSHV; tumor viruses; RNA splicing; RNA-protein interactions; noncoding RNA; and RNA processing
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Interests: bat virus infection and immunity; virus host interaction; SARS-CoV
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