Topical Advisory Panel

Members


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Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
Interests: mathematical modeling; COVID-19; human influenza; influenza A virus
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Viral Immunology Center, Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Interests: zoonotic viruses; innate immune defenses; adaptive immune defense; virus pathogenesis; neuroimmunology; drug discovery; vaccine designs; rapid pathogen identification; high-throughput diagnostics

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Faculty of Animal Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Interests: bat borne infectious diseases; endogenous viruses; Pteropine orthoreovirus; EMCV; bat coronavirus
Department of Marine Biotechnology, Gangneung Wonju National University, Gangneung 210-702, Republic of Korea
Interests: fish diseases; fish molecular immunology; biosensors; vaccines; cytokines
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
Interests: molecular virology; viral pathoegenesis; virus-host interactions; innate antiviral response; protein modifications; protein trafficking; acetylation
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Ulf Landegren group, Molecular Tools, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: single molecule detection; biotechnology; single virus detection; single virus sorting; host protein incorporation; Arboviruses; retroviruses; single cell analysis; T-cell immunity

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Department of Pharmacology & Molecular Therapeutics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
Interests: endogenous retroviruses; regulation of viral expression; interferon response; RNA signaling

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Head of Avian Influenza Group and Visiting Professor, Royal Veterinary College London, The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking GU24 0NF, UK
Interests: avian influenza virus evolution; influenza virus infection control in poultry; influenza virus subtypes detection
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Aiseikai Memorial Ibaraki Welfare and Medical Center, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: HTLV-1 mother-to child transmission (screening and preventive measures)
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2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and L Pasteur Univesity Hospital Kosice, PJ Safarik University, Trieda SNP 1, 04011 Kosice, Slovakia
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

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Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; Kaposi’s sarcoma; prostate cancer; DNA damage

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Biology Department Higgins 545, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
Interests: retroviruses; endogenous retroviruses; HERV-K; gammaretroviruses; betaretroviruses; restriction factors; paleovirology; primate lentiviruses
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Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7028 Trondheim, Norway
Interests: antiviral agents; broad-spectrum antivirals; antiviral response; innate immunity; adaptive immunity
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Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; virus–host interactions; pathogenesis; innate immunity; intercellular communications; autophagy; transcription; protein trafficking; viral envelopment; antiviral targets
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Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)/Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Campus E8.1, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
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
Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Leipzig, Germany
Interests: environmental virology; viral metagenomics; viral metatranscriptomics; phage genomics; virus evolution and phylogeny
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Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5215, USA
Interests: genetic diversity; HIV-1 CRF02-AG
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Interests: herpesviruses; gene expression; noncoding RNAs; innate Immunity; transposable elements
Division of Vector Borne Diseases, Arboviral Disease Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Interests: arboviruses; virus-vector interactions; virus evolution; medical entomology; metagenomics; pathogen detection
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Center for Biologics Research and Evaluation, U. S. Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Bldg. 72–52, Room 1216, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, USA
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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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA
Interests: understand the life-cycle of particular DNA viruses at an atomic resolution
Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Interests: host cell entry and infectious particle assembly of hepatitis B & C viruses; virus evolution, antiviral resistance and fitness change; antiviral drug development against emerging infectious diseases

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Microbiology and Immunology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA
Interests: innate immune system; pathogenesis of severe viral infections; therapeutics

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Department of Molecular Microbiology, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel
Interests: adenovirus-host cell interactions; cancer cell death
Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Pharmacy, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
Interests: infection and immunity; obesity and viral infection; antiviral drug development; coxsackievirus B3; human rhinovirus; enterovirus; influenza virus
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Interests: herpes simplex virus; viral DNA replication; DNA recombination; viral replication compartments; viral nuclear interactions
Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, NSW Health Pathology-Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Interests: respiratory viruses; diagnostics; communicable diseases; emerging viruses; solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Department of Microbiology, Tokushima University Graduate School of Medical Science, Tokushima, Japan
Interests: mammarenavirus; hantavirus; pathogenesis; animal models; vaccine; virus-host interactions; HIV-1 replication
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: avian sarcoma leukosis virus; virophages; virus entry; virophage integration
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Interests: bacteriophage research; phage-host interactions; DNA modifications in phages; biotechnology; molecular biology
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