Professor Margaret Kielian works at the Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA. Professor Karl Maramorosch works at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Born: March 18, 1957 in Goeppingen, GermanyNationality: German1963-1967: Elementary School1967-1976: High School (Gymnasium)1976: Diploma (Abitur)1976-1977: Compulsory Military Service1977-1982: Study of biology at Tuebingen University, Germany1982-1985: Ph.D. work at Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tuebingen, Germany1985: Ph.D. in Genetics1986-1987: Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Department of Microbiology1988-today: Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals1990: 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, Germanysince 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.

• 1. Peste des Petits Ruminants VirusMichael D Baron, Adama Diallo, Renaud Lancelot and Geneviève Libeau2. Cell-to-Cell Spread of HIV And Viral PathogenesisKenneth M. Law, Namita Satija, Anthony M. Esposito and Benjamin K. Chen3. Future Scenarios for Plant Virus Pathogens as Climate Change ProgressesRoger A.C. Jones4. Autophagy and Mammalian Viruses: Roles in Immune Response, Viral Replication, and BeyondPetra Paul and Christian Münz5. Historical Perspective: What Constitutes Discovery (of a New Virus)?Frederick A. Murphy