**About the Editors**

**Tom Hobman** is a professor in the department of Cell Biology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. His laboratory has studied cellular aspects of RNA virus host interactions for over 25 years. Recent pathogens of interest include emerging flaviviruses, HIV-1, alphaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.

**Anil Kumar** is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, training with Prof. Ralf Bartenschlager and completed his post-doctoral training in the lab of Prof. Tom Hobman at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests focus on the host–pathogen interactions of arboviruses; especially flaviviruses and alphaviruses. He is the author of several studies on the interactions of the host innate immune system with arboviruses.

**Daniel Limonta** is a Medical Microbiologist (MD., PhD.) with a strong background in virology. He completed a Cell and Molecular Biology Master's degree at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil, and a Medical Microbiology Residency and Virology PhD Programs at the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine in Havana, Cuba. His main topic of research in Brazil and Cuba was the Dengue virus pathogenesis. He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Canada to work at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology at the University of Alberta. His postdoctoral research has been focused on host and pandemic viruses' interactions, including the Zika virus and more recently SARS-CoV-2.
