Topical Advisory Panel
- Animal Viruses Section
- Coronaviruses Section
- Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals Section
- Human Virology and Viral Diseases Section
- Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa Section
- Insect Viruses Section
- Bacterial Viruses Section
- Prions Section
- General Virology Section
Members
Interests: mathematical modeling; COVID-19; human influenza; influenza A virus
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Interests: zoonotic viruses; innate immune defenses; adaptive immune defense; virus pathogenesis; neuroimmunology; drug discovery; vaccine designs; rapid pathogen identification; high-throughput diagnostics
Interests: bat borne infectious diseases; endogenous viruses; Pteropine orthoreovirus; EMCV; bat coronavirus
Interests: fish diseases; fish molecular immunology; biosensors; vaccines; cytokines
Interests: molecular virology; viral pathoegenesis; virus-host interactions; innate antiviral response; protein modifications; protein trafficking; acetylation
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Interests: single molecule detection; biotechnology; single virus detection; single virus sorting; host protein incorporation; Arboviruses; retroviruses; single cell analysis; T-cell immunity
Interests: endogenous retroviruses; regulation of viral expression; interferon response; RNA signaling
Interests: avian influenza virus evolution; influenza virus infection control in poultry; influenza virus subtypes detection
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Interests: HTLV-1 mother-to child transmission (screening and preventive measures)
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Interests: general hepatology; chronic viral hepatitis (epidemiology, clinical course, treatment and elimination); new diagnostic markers of HBV infection; hepatitis E and viral infections in special populations
Interests: herpesviruses; Kaposi’s sarcoma; prostate cancer; DNA damage
Interests: retroviruses; endogenous retroviruses; HERV-K; gammaretroviruses; betaretroviruses; restriction factors; paleovirology; primate lentiviruses
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Interests: antiviral agents; broad-spectrum antivirals; antiviral response; innate immunity; adaptive immunity
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Interests: herpesviruses; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; innate immunity; intercellular communications; autophagy; transcription; protein trafficking; viral envelopment; antiviral targets
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Interests: the change of free binding energy of ligands upon point mutations in the virus protein; evolution of binding interfaces in interactions between viral-viral and viral-host proteins; modelling the emergence of resistance towards anti-viral drugs; modelling specificity of virus-host interactions; evolution of the viral proteome; development of resistance towards antiviral drugs
Interests: environmental virology; viral metagenomics; viral metatranscriptomics; phage genomics; virus evolution and phylogeny
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Interests: genetic diversity; HIV-1 CRF02-AG
Interests: herpesviruses; gene expression; noncoding RNAs; innate Immunity; transposable elements
Interests: arboviruses; virus-vector interactions; virus evolution; medical entomology; metagenomics; pathogen detection
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Interests: retrovirus biology and genomics; in vitro models for virus-host interactions; SIV monkey models; viral vaccines; high-throughput sequencing; bioinformatics; novel virus discovery
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Interests: understand the life-cycle of particular DNA viruses at an atomic resolution
Interests: host cell entry and infectious particle assembly of hepatitis B & C viruses; virus evolution, antiviral resistance and fitness change; antiviral drug development against emerging infectious diseases
Interests: innate immune system; pathogenesis of severe viral infections; therapeutics
Interests: adenovirus-host cell interactions; cancer cell death
Interests: infection and immunity; obesity and viral infection; antiviral drug development; coxsackievirus B3; human rhinovirus; enterovirus; influenza virus
Interests: herpes simplex virus; viral DNA replication; DNA recombination; viral replication compartments; viral nuclear interactions
Interests: respiratory viruses; diagnostics; communicable diseases; emerging viruses; solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Interests: mammarenavirus; hantavirus; pathogenesis; animal models; vaccine; virus-host interactions; HIV-1 replication
Interests: avian sarcoma leukosis virus; virophages; virus entry; virophage integration
Interests: bacteriophage research; phage-host interactions; DNA modifications in phages; biotechnology; molecular biology