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Informationen zum Autor Professor Margaret Kielian works at the Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. Born: March 18, 1957 in Goeppingen, Germany Nationality: German 1963-1967: Elementary School 1967-1976: High School (Gymnasium) 1976: Diploma (Abitur) 1976-1977: Compulsory Military Service 1977-1982: Study of biology at Tuebingen University, Germany 1982-1985: Ph.D. work at Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tuebingen, Germany 1985: Ph.D. in Genetics 1986-1987: Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Department of Microbiology 1988-today: Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals 1990: Habilitation (prerequisite for professorship) since 1994: Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Insel Riems, Germany since 1996: President of the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals (renamed in 2004 'Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut') since 1997: Professor of Virology at University of Greifswald Scientific Work: More than 300 peer-reviewed publications in international journals (listed in PubMed) on different aspects of infectious animal diseases. Prof. Marilyn J. Roossinck works at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA.
List of contents
1. The Species Problem in Virology
Marc H. Van Regenmortel
2. The Role of Immune Responses in HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission
Julie Overbaugh and Caitlin Milligan
3. African swine fever virus biology and vaccine approaches
Juergen A. Richt
4. Morbillivirus Pathogenesis and Virus-Host Interactions
Veronika von Messling
5. Viruses of Plant-Interacting Fungi
Nobuhiro Suzuki
6. Protein localization and interaction studies in plants: toward defining complete proteomes by visualization
Michael Goodin
7. So what have plant viruses ever done for virology and molecular biology?
George P. Lomonossoff
8. Respiratory coronaviruses and their reservoirs
Christian Drosten
9. Filoviruses: Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution
Heinz Feldmann
10. An Orchestra of Reovirus Receptors: Still Searching for the Conductor
Terence Dermody, Pavithra Aravamudhan and Danica Sutherland
11. Antiviral immune response and the route of infection in Drosophila melanogaster
Maria-Carla Saleh
12. Changing role of wild birds in the epidemiology of avian influenza A viruses
Thijs Kuiken
13. Intracellular Antiviral Immunity
Leo C. James
14. How does vaccinia virus interfere with interferon?
Geoffrey Smith
