Topical Advisory Panel

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Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Interests: poxviruses; virus-host interactions; oncolytic viruses
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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science, School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD 4556, Australia
Interests: emerging infectious disease; transfusion-transmitted infection; blood transfusion safety.

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UR7310, Lab Virology, University of Corsica, 20250 Corte, France
Interests: emerging viruses; epidemiology; surveillance network; general practice; tick-vector borne disease
Centre de Recherche et de Développement de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, 430 Gouin, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 3E6, Canada
Interests: plant virus epidemiology; dynamic simulation modeling; ecogenomic and quantitative epidemiology
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Plymouth University, Peninsula School of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth PL6 8BU, UK
Interests: hepatitis C virus; hepatitis B virus

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Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Savoyenstraße 1a, 1160 Vienna, Austria
Interests: avian influenza ecology, surveillance, immunopathogenesis; virology; microbiology; eco-immunology; one-health
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, ZMV-FZEA, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Av. Duque de Caxias Norte 225, Pirassununga 13635-900, SP, Brazil
Interests: avulavirus; newcastle disease virus; subgenotype; influenza A virus (H5N8); avian influenza; wild birds
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Childrens Hospital, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Interests: hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D, E; influenza viruses; clinical virology diagnostics and vaccine research; SARS-CoV-2
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Veterinary Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Interests: antiviral against SARS-CoV-2; hepatitis E virus

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Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: respiratory viruses; lung immunology; viral fusion proteins; pneumovirus
Centro Retrovirus, Dept Translational Research, University of Pisa, Via del Brennero 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy
Interests: antiviral drugs; T cell immunity to viruses; neutralizing antibodies; innate immunity; virus–host interactions; respiratory viruses

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CIRAD, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: emerging diseases; infectious diseases; microbiology; genomics; virus evolution; dynamics of infectious diseases
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Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 200241, China
Interests: development of vaccines against animal viruses
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School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Interests: interferon; virus; zika; dengue; SARS-CoV-2
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Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Centre for Biotechnology from the Spanish National Research Council (CNB-CSIC), 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: hepatitis viruses; HBV; HCV; virus-host interactions; antivirals

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Lab of Virology, Pad Baglivi, INMI L Spallanzani, Via Portuense, 292, 00149 Rome, Italy
Interests: HPV; HIV; viral hepatitis; virus molecular evolution; host–pathogen interaction; zoonoses
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Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Des Moines, IA 50311, USA
Interests: herpes viruses; cytomegalovirus; antivirals; polymerase inhibitors; prodrug activation and accumulation; terminase inhibitors

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Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Otago, 720 Cumberland Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
Interests: virus evolution; virus discovery; virus ecology; cross species transmission

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Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Interests: IgE/allergic responses; bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) pathogenesis; and effects of air pollutants (environmental tobacco smoke and ozone) on pulmonary allergic disease/asthma

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Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, I-50134 Florence, Italy
Interests: polyomaviruses studies; influenza viruses studies; emerging viruses; antivirals
Molecular and Cellular Virology Team, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL) Inserm U1019, CNRS UMR 9017, Université Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
Interests: coronavirus; viral entry; envelope glycoproteins; N-glycans; high throughput sequencing; molecular epidemiology; molecular diagnosis
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Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy, Panepistimiopolis Zografou, 15771 Athens, Greece
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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Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
Interests: hepatitis B virus (HBV); hepatitis delta virus (HDV); hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); RNA viruses; vaccines and antivirals against HBV and HDV; HBV RNA species
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
Interests: HIV infection; incorporation of host proteins into HIV virions; identification of novel antivirals; cytokines/chemokines

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Instituto Biofisika (CSIC-UPV/EHU), Bizkaia, Spain
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
Visiting Research Fellow, The University of Adelaide, and Senior Research Scientist with the Australian Wine Research Institute, P.O. Box 197, Glen Osmond, Adelaide 5064, SA, Australia
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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The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Interests: sexual transmission of HIV; inflamatory bowel disease; crohn's disease; mucosal immunology; mononuclear phagocytes

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Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, Department of Virology and Bacteriology, ul. Wł. Węgorka 20, 60-318 Poznań, Poland
Interests: evolution of plant viruses; host–pathogen interactions; subviral RNA particles; RNA interference
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Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: infectious diseases; pharmacology and toxicology of natural products; analytical methods for isolation and identification of natural products; molecular mechanisms of pharmacological action; pediatric infectious diseases
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Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
Interests: respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); determinants of asthma and allergy in children; lung pathology; respiratory virus-host interactions
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