Editorial Board for section 'Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals'
- Animal Viruses Section
- Coronaviruses Section
- Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals Section
- Human Virology and Viral Diseases Section
- Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa Section
- Invertebrate Viruses Section
- Bacterial Viruses Section
- Prions Section
- General Virology Section
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: genetics; retroviruses; microbiota; innate and adaptive immune responses
Interests: viral immunity; RNA virus-host interaction; influenza; LCMV; sphingolipid network
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Interests: antiviral immune responses; ebola; Marburg; rabies; Lassa fever; innate immunity; virus-host interaction; zoonotic diseases; antiviral therapeutics
Interests: anti-viral innate immunity; interferon; flaviviruses; host response to viral infection; interferon stimulated genes; viruses of wildlife; animal immunology
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Interests: reovirus; innate immunity
Interests: mucosal-transmitted viruses with important clinical significance; HIV-1; HSV-2; HuNoV; viral mucosal infection; immunity; vaccines; antiviral strategies
Interests: molecular virology and oncology
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Interests: herpesviruses; herpes simplex virus; glycoproteins; receptors; neutralizing antibodies; cell adhesion
Interests: virus-host interactions; innate antiviral immunity; pathogenesis of RNA virus infections
Interests: pandemic and emerging viruses; host antiviral responses and HIV cure
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Interests: host intrinsic immunity; poxvirus
Dr. Kenneth Lundstrom
Section Board Member
Interests: viral gene therapy; viral vaccines; gene expression using viral vectors; structural biology
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Interests: virology; virus replication and pathogenesis; flavivirus; norovirus; immunology
Interests: viral pathogenesis and regulation of innate immunity; Powassan virus pathogenesis, systemic spread, reverse genetics, neurovirulence, neurotropism, age dependent lethality, POWV attenuation and vaccine development, POWV long term neurologic damage, hantavirus pathogenesis and receptor directed endothelial permeatbility; Flavivirus protein functions in cell attachment, tropism and as targets for inhibiting replication
Interests: HIV infection; antiretroviral therapy; HIV non infectious comorbidities; SARS-CoV-2; viral hepatitis in prison setting
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Interests: antimicrobials, antiviral, gut microbiota, plant extracts, bioactive compounds
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Interests: human antibody engineering; use of human antibodies in discovery research and in the treatment of human diseases
Interests: emerging viruses; filoviruses; VSV; pathogenesis; animal models; vaccines; therapeutics; host–pathogen interactions
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Interests: virus–host receptor interactions; adenovirus structural biology; adenovirus–innate immune interactions
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Interests: C. trachomatis; HPV vaccines; BV; DIV; vulvar pain syndrome
Interests: viral pathogenesis; gene therapy; medical virology; target discovery; antivirals
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Interests: parainfluenza; paramyxovirus; innate immunity; RNA virus; replication
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Interests: norovirus; rotavirus; influenza virus; virus evolution; viral immunity
Interests: viral and host factors that generate mutations in HIV-1 and MLV; antiviral drug resistance, in vivo reverse transcription
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Dr. Rosamaria Pennisi
Section Board Member
Interests: natural antivirals; host and viruses interaction; intracellular trafficking of viral infection; herpesviruses; HSV-1; viral immune evasion; virus-induced cell death; RNAi; small RNAs as therapeutics
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Interests: paramyxovirus entry and replication; antiviral drug development
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Interests: viral diseases; long COVID; flavivirus; vertical transmission; immunology; immunopathology; one health
Interests: retroviruses; integration; reverse transcriptase; envelope proteins; gene therapy; targeted entry; structural studies
Interests: lyssavirus diagnostics and pathobiology; rabies prevention and control; epizootiology of viral zoonoses
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Interests: virus-specific T cell immunity; aging immunity; influenza; SARS-CoV-2; CD8+ T cells

















