Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Human Virology and Viral Diseases'

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Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: retrovirus assembly and structure; retrovirus protein interactions and trafficking
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Research Unit in Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Applied to Veterinary Sciences, Fundamental and Applied Research for Animal and Health Center, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Interests: quantitative epidemiology; quantitative risk analysis; infectiology; prevention and control of diseases; mandatory diseases; emerging diseases; transboundary diseases; biosecurity; livestock; vector-borne diseases
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International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Cape Town 7925, South Africa
Interests: oncogenic and emerging viruses; KSHV; EBV; HPV; SARS-CoV-2; HIV
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Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
Interests: genomic epidemiology; influenza; phylodynamics; RNA viruses; bioinformatics
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Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Interests: treatment of infectious diseases; HIV therapy and drug resistance
Daniella Lee Casper Laboratory in Viral Oncology, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
Interests: viral oncology; KSHV; EBV; CpG methylation; cell-free DNA

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McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
Interests: the cell biology underlying the assembly and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)

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UNC School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Nephropathology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Interests: viral infections in renal and bone marrow transplants with a focus on polyomavirus nephropathy; electron microscopy in renal and bone marrow transplants with specific focus on diagnostic noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosis of polyomavirus nephropathy using negative staining electron microscopy

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Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, 35122 Padua, Italy
Interests: mechanisms of viral infection and immunity; development of new assays for the diagnosis of infectious diseases; microRNAs in infectious diseases
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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 1678, Cyprus
Interests: oncogenic viruses; papillomaviruses; virus-cell interactions; mouse models of infection and viral disease
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Interests: structural biology and biophysical studies of retroviruses; nuclear magnetic reso-nance spectroscopy
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Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
Interests: cytomegalovirus; COVID-19; glycosaminoglycans; virus entry; egress; maturation
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: rotavirus infection; virus vectors; vaccine development
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Gene Expression and Regulation, The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: epigenetic regulation of herpesviruses infection
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Strada Provinciale per Casamassima Km 3, Valenzano, 70010 Bari, Italy
Interests: foodborne viruses; waterborne viruses; enteroviruses; food safety; food microbiology; risk assessment; food hygiene; biomolecular diagnostic methods; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis E; norovirus
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Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, 1395 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Interests: epigenetic regulation of the KSHV life cycle; de novo viral infection; the establishment and maintenance of KSHV latency; lytic reactivation from latency
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Bethesda, MD, USA
Interests: HIV; extracellular vesicles; CMV
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1. AP–HP, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Université Paris-Saclay, Service de Virologie, INSERM U1193, 94804 Villejuif, France
2. French National Reference Center for Rubella, Groupe de Recherche sur les Infections Pendant la Grossesse (GRIG), Paris, France
Interests: congenital infections; perinatal infections; CMV; rubella; serology; prenatal diagnosis

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Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, 1664 North Virginia Street, MS 320, Center for Molecular Medicine, 211F, Reno, NV 89557, USA
Interests: herpesvirology; latency and viral reactivation; genetic and epigenetic factors of viral replication; zika virus pathogenesis
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Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Interests: unfolded protein response; X box binding protein; activating transcription factor

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Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn, Tuwima 10, 10-748 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: molecular virology; virus-host interactions; cell biology of viral infections; herpesviruses; Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus; latency-associated nuclear antigen; immunity; human cytomegalovirus; congenital infections
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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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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 Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: clinical virology; diagnosis & treatment of viral infections; antivirals
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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 Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: host-pathogen interaction; pathogenesis; influenza; enteroviruses; coronaviruses; neurotropic viruses
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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Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Interests: infectious diseases; occupational medicine

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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
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