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2. 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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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

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
Topical Collection in Pathogens: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Disease

Interests: interferon; reovirus; pathogenesis; dissemination; mouse model; oncolytics
Interests: herpes simplex virus; cellular machinery; assembly
Interests: SIV; pathogenesis
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Interests: entry; egress; interactions of enveloped viruses with host cells; emerging zoonotic paramyxoviruses; vaccines; antiviral strategies
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Interests: giant viruses; large viruses; evolution; host–virus interactions
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Special Issue in Viruses: Emerging Viruses: Surveillance, Prevention, Evolution and Control
Special Issue in Viruses: Smallpox and Emerging Zoonotic Orthopoxviruses 2.0: What Is Coming Next?
Special Issue in Viruses: Genomics of Giant Viruses
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: 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: Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and Related Pestiviruses, Volume II

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

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: avian influenza; vaccines

Interests: fish and shrimp viruses (diagnosis, vaccines, immune response); Algal viruses (Phycodnaviridae); Rhabdoviruses; Tospoviruses

Interests: veterinary virology, graduate level advanced virology; bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1); equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) pathogenesis; genetically engineered vaccines; animal herpesvirus vectored vaccine
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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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Interests: HIV-1; TRIM5; SAMHD1; MxB; SERINC5; uncoating; nuclear import

Interests: RNA viruses; Hepatitis viruses; flaviviruses; host-viruses interactions

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: ASFV; CSFV; PRRSV; PEDV; PDCoV; SwIV; FMDV; Swine viruses
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Special Issue in Viruses: Endemic and Emerging Swine Viruses 2021
Special Issue in Viruses: Endemic and Emerging Swine Viruses 2022
Interests: retroviral replication; tyrosine kinase oncogenes
Interests: zoonotic viruses; adenovirus; influenza A virus; influenza D virus; coronavirus; enterovirus; epidemiology
Interests: noroviruses; caliciviruses; viral gastroenteritis
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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: rabies virus; Nipah virus; paramyxoviruses

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: molecular diagnostics; real-time PCR; point-of-care test; virology; virus-host interaction; pathogen surveillance; molecular epidemiology; emerging viruses
Interests: African swine fever virus; classical swine fever virus; vaccines
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Interests: Genetic and phenotipic diversity of HIV and HCV
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Special Issue in Viruses: HIV-1 and Hepatitis Virus Co-infection

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: HBV; cccDNA; APOBEC3; viral DNA integration

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

2. 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; West Nile virus; Usutu virus; Borna disease virus; MERS and SARS coronaviruses
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Special Issue in Viruses: State-of-the-Art Virology Research in Austria

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: peste des petits ruminants virus; PPRV; FMDV; vaccines; pathogenesis of PPRV
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Special Issue in Viruses: Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control
Special Issue in Viruses: Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Eradication: Improved Understanding of Epidemiology, Diagnostics and Vaccine Efficacy, Volume II

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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Special Issue in Viruses: Viral Cross-Species Transmission

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: molecular mechanisms of viral virulence; host range and immunomodulation; ASFV vaccine design and development
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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: 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
Special Issue in Viruses: Viruses of Wildlife: Impact on Human and Animal Health

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: airway biology; virus-host interactions; innate antiviral defense; species tropism; tissue engineering; primary cell systems; respiratory viruses
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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: rotavirus; rotavirus vaccine; molecular epidemiology

Interests: enterovirus; rhinovirus; picornaviruses; respiratory and neurotropic viruses; antivirals
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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
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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: papillomavirus; virus-host interactions; tumor viruses; innate immunity

Interests: viral-host interplay; SARS-CoV; influenza A virus; site-targeted antivirals
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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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Special Issue in Viruses: Epstein-Barr Virus Replication and Pathogenesis

Interests: bat virus infection and immunity; virus host interaction; SARS-CoV
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