Homage to Jan Svoboda: Recent Advances in Topics Pioneered by his Prague School
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Viruses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2018) | Viewed by 85642
Special Issue Editors
Interests: avian sarcoma/leukosis viruses; epigenetic silencing of retroviruses; receptor for retroviruses; endogenous retroviruses; syncytins; retroviral vectors; retrotransposons; transgenesis in chicken
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Interests: retrovirus assembly and structure; retrovirus protein interactions and trafficking
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Dear Colleagues,
Jan Svoboda, a pioneer of retrovirology, brilliant scientist and good friend passed away on March 13 this year. He was a living legend in the fields of retrovirology, tumor viruses, and oncogenes. The scientific community will remember Svoboda not only for his seminal work. Numerous students and peers will surely remember him also for his mentorship, life-long contacts, and influence. This Special Issue intends to commemorate Jan’s scientific legacy and point out the recent progress in the topics that he established and pursued during his long and fruitful life in science. We also hope to assemble contributions from people who were influenced by Jan, either as his students or collaborators, and who now work on different topics of virology, oncology, immunology, and cell biology. We accept research articles, reviews, and, potentially, brief communications analysing Jan Svoboda's contribution to the basic concepts in virology.
The most preferred topics for research articles are virus-host interactions; trans-species virus transmission and factors of cell permissiveness to viruses; receptors for retroviruses and virus entry; virus assembly and trafficking; integration events and whole-genome approaches to retroviral localization; transcriptional control and epigenetics; latency and persistence of viral infections; retroviral pathogenesis and tumorigenesis; virus-transduced oncogenes; endogenous retroviruses; and retrotransposons. The basic models for Jan's research were Rous sarcoma virus, other avian sarcoma/leucosis viruses, and domestic chicken as a host. Therefore, we strongly encourage members of the small and vanishing ASLV and chicken community to submit their results to this Special Issue of Viruses.
Dr. Jiri Hejnar
Dr. Tomas Ruml
Guest Editor
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Keywords
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Jan Svoboda scientific legacy
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retroviruses
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virus interactions
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cell permissiveness for viral infection
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retroviral pathogenesis
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