Topical Advisory Panel

Topical Advisory Panel Members (303)

Insect Pest Control Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food & Agriculture, P.O. Box 100, Wagrammer Straße 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Interests: virology; insect viruses; virus-host interaction; molecular virology; viral taxonomy; virus management; virus dynamics; virus detection
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1. Penn Institute for Immunology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
2. Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo 12613, Egypt
Interests: antiviral immunity; adaptive immunity; T cell biology; exhausted T cells (Tex); recovery of Tex; chronic viruses; HCV; LCMV, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of immune cells; cancer immunotherapy
School of Biology, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Interests: virology; antivirals; innate immunity; virus–host interactions; virus assembly and maturation; viral proteases; human immunodeficiency viruses; human cytomegalovirus; respiratory viruses; emerging and re-emerging viruses
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Département de biochimie, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, 3201, rue Jean-Mignault Sherbrooke, QC J1E 4K8, Canada
Interests: viroid; phytoplasma; liberibacter; viroid-host interaction; host defense mechanism; RNA biology; molecular virology; viroid pathogenesis; viroid evolution and adaptation; high throughout sequencing; molecular diagnostics
Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: influenza; antibody responses; original antigenic sin; vaccine effectiveness; viral evolution; HIV persistence
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Department of Biomedical Sciences, Section of Microbiology and Virology, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: virology; clinical virology; host-pathogen interactions; viral pathogenesis; persistent infections; antimicrobials
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Laboratoire de Chimie Bactérienne, CNRS Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
Interests: bacteriophage; host-phage interactions; lysogeny; biosensors; phage genomics; biotechnologies
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Interests: bacteriological well clogging; protozoan parasites; bacteriophages in environment; pathogenic bacteria and biofilms
Dr. Hossein H. Ashrafi
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School of Life Science, Pharmacy and Chemistry, Kingston University London, London KT1 2EE, UK
Interests: human papillomavirus (HPV); Varicella-Zoster-Virus (VZV)
TransVIHMI (Recherches Translationnelles sur VIH et Maladies Infectieuses), Université de Montpellier, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, INSERM, 34394 Montpellier, France
Interests: immune responses to viral infections; serology; immunoglobulin repertoires
Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Interests: filoviruses; antiviral and vaccine development; pathogenesis; molecular virology; virus–host interactions
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Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), Woodham Lane, Weybridge KT15 3NB, Surrey, UK
Interests: RNA viruses with an emphasis on avian and mammalian influenza viruses, avian paramyxoviruses and pathogens of zoonotic significance
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Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Interests: emerging viruses with veterinary relevance; virome; diagnostic of viral infections; pathogenesis; immune responses to viral infections
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Genomic Medicine Department, GENYO Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research, Pfizer/University of Granada/Andalusian Regional Government, Health Sciences Technology Park, Av. de la Illustration 114, 18016 Granada, Spain
Interests: gene editing applied to the field of gene and cell therapy; gene therapy of primary immunodeficiency and cancer; gene editing tools optimization; CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing for cancer immunotherapy
Dr. Leticia V. Bentancor
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Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic and Applied Microbiology, National University of Quilmes, Bernal, Buenos Aires 1876, Argentina
Interests: phage-host interactions; phage therapy
Dr. Gretchen L. Bentz

Division of Biomedical Sciences, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA 31207, USA
Interests: Epstein-Barr virus; latent membrane protein-1; post-translational modifications; herpesviruses; SUMOylation; viral reactivation; viral pathogenesis; virus-host interaction
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, 41346 Gothenburg, Sweden
Interests: neurotropic viruses; glycovirology; antivirals
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Université de Strasbourg, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, CNRS UPR 9002, 2 allée Conrad Roentgen, F-67084 Strasbourg, France
Interests: viral ribonucleoproteins; genome incorporation and assembly
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Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
Interests: emerging viruses; monkeypox virus (mpox); HPV; cervical cancer; pathogen discovery
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