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Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, Université Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), 181 Chemin du Lazaret, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Interests: aquatic viral ecology; effect of aerosols on microorganisms; interactions between microorganisms and metazoans
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1. Division of Protective Immunity and Division of Cancer Pathobiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: virology; virus replication; DNA damage and repair; genome instability; viral vectors
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Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Biological Control, Heinrichstr. 243, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany​
Interests: virus population genetics; insect viruses; next generation sequencing; nanopore sequencing; genotyping; viral taxonomy; virus evolution
College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Interests: identification of the viruses and viroids infecting horticultural crops and fungi; the interaction between viruses and viroids and their hosts
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Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 106 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, USA
Interests: RNA viruses; influenza; vaccine development; antiviral development; viral immunology; viral pathogenesis; molecular virology; virus–host interaction
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Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Interests: small RNAs; extracellular vesicles; drug addiction; chronic inflammation; stem cells and brain organoids
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Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: cancer immunotherapy; anti-viral immunotherapy; DNA tumor viruses; viral oncogenesis; tumor virology

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Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: norovirus; rotavirus; viral and Clostridioides difficile diarrhea; gastroenteritic; vaccine efficacy evaluation; therapeutic nanobodies and IgY
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Interests: viral entry; antiviral; virus-host cell interaction; vaccine development; virus detection; protein structure and function; nanotechnology; mechanobiology; biophysical methods; bioengineering methods
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State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: B cell responses to human viruses; neutralizing antibodies; arthropod-transmitted human viruses; ZIKV; SARS-CoV-2;new bunyaviruses
JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: virus evolution; infectious disease epidemiology; biostatistics; tropical medicine
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1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan
2. The iEGG and Animal Biotechnology Center, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
Interests: avian virology; virus-like particles (VLPs); avian disease; cytokines
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ABSL-III Laboratory at Center for Animal Experiments, Wuhan University School of Medicine, Wuhan 430071, China
Interests: antiviral immunity; host immune defense mechanism; viral pathogenesis
Avian Disease Division, Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Gimcheon 39660, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea
Interests: avian disease; avian viral disease; avian pathology
College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Interests: plant virology; vector transmission; epidemiology of viral infections; virus population dynamics and evolution; soybean virus
Department of Plant Pathology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: plant-virus interaction; maize viruses; tomato viruses

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1. Research Center for Health Sciences and Biomedicine (CICSaB), Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), Av. Sierra Leona 550 Lomas 2da Seccion, San Luis Potosi 72810, Mexico
2. Department of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), Av. Chapultepec 1570, Privadas del Pedregal, San Luis Potosi 78295, Mexico
Interests: VLP-based vaccines; rna viruses; coronaviruses; viral assembly; arboviviruses
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Virology Division, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: filovirus; ebolavirus; EBOV; MARV; SUDV; coronavirus; COVID; herpesvirus; animal models
1. Department of Surgery, Medicine, Dentistry and Morphological Sciences with Interest in Transplantation, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
2. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Anatomical Pathology, University Hospital of Modena—Polyclinic, Modena, Italy
Interests: pathology oncology gynecology; human papilloma virus (HPV); epstein–barr virus (EBV); human herpes virus 8 (HHV8); coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS); middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS); nipah virus ebola virus
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Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: clinical virology; diagnosis & treatment of viral infections; antivirals
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Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: broadly protective vaccines; therapeutics against infectious human and animal viral diseases; molecular pathogenesis of emerging and zoonotic infectious viruses including influenza A viruses
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Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: host-pathogen interaction; pathogenesis; influenza; enteroviruses; coronaviruses; neurotropic viruses
National Blood Centre, Italian National Institute of Health, 00161 Rome, Italy
Interests: transfusion risk; transfusion transmitted infection (TTI), pathogen reduction; neuroinflammation; neurological infection diseases
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1. Department of Donor Medicine Research, Laboratory of blood-borne Infections, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2. Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: blood-borne viruses; sexually transmitted infections; viral hepatitis; molecular epidemiology; molecular diagnostics; molecular typing; prevention strategies
Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Interests: virus; host; structure; biology; cells; biochemistry; protein; gene; vaccines; immunology
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Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany
Interests: mathematical modelling of infectious disease; bioinformatics; systems biology; systems pharmacology; non-coding RNA

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Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Interests: infectious diseases; occupational medicine
Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medical Technology, Chung-Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
Interests: dengue virus; SARS-CoV-2


Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: antimicrobial peptide; virus-host interaction; zoonoses; animal viruses; respiratory viruses
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