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
- Invertebrate Viruses Section
- Bacterial Viruses Section
- Prions Section
- General Virology Section
Members
Interests: medicinal chemistry; antiviral agents; anticancer agents; trypanocidal agents; anti-HBV drugs; anti-HCV drugs; anti-influenza A agents; anti-flavivirus agents
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Interests: hepatitis B virus (HBV); hepatitis delta virus (HDV); hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); RNA viruses; vaccines and antivirals against HBV and HDV; HBV RNA species
Interests: HIV infection; incorporation of host proteins into HIV virions; identification of novel antivirals; cytokines/chemokines
Interests: developement of a VLP-based platform for rational design of human vaccines; capsid stucture of picornaviruses and genome release; molecular Dynamic methods applied to understand structure-function relationship in proteins of the GPCR family and in non-enveloped viral capsids
Interests: grapevine viruses; viroids and phytoplasmas; molecular diagnosis; emerging viruses of the grapevine; elimination of viruses from the grapevine by thermotherapy and chemotherapy; molecular diagnosis of Grapevine Trunk Diseases (GTD)
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Interests: sexual transmission of HIV; inflamatory bowel disease; crohn's disease; mucosal immunology; mononuclear phagocytes
Interests: evolution of plant viruses; host–pathogen interactions; subviral RNA particles; RNA interference
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Interests: infectious diseases; herpesviruses; pharmacology and toxicology; molecular medicine; oncology and hematology; cardiovascular diseases; natural products; drug discovery; analytical and bioanalytical techniques
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Interests: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); determinants of asthma and allergy in children; lung pathology; respiratory virus-host interactions
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; influenza virus; viral pathogenesis; virus–host interactions; innate antiviral response; post-translational protein modifications; protein trafficking; acetylation; HDACs; HATs
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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