Advances in Virus Research

Professor Margaret Kielian works at the Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 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. Prof. Marilyn J. Roossinck works at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA.

• 1. The Species Problem in VirologyMarc H. Van Regenmortel2. The Role of Immune Responses in HIV Mother-to-Child TransmissionJulie Overbaugh and Caitlin Milligan 3. African swine fever virus biology and vaccine approaches Juergen A. Richt4. Morbillivirus Pathogenesis and Virus-Host InteractionsVeronika von Messling5. Viruses of Plant-Interacting Fungi Nobuhiro Suzuki6. Protein localization and interaction studies in plants: toward defining complete proteomes by visualizationMichael Goodin7. So what have plant viruses ever done for virology and molecular biology?George P. Lomonossoff8. Respiratory coronaviruses and their reservoirsChristian Drosten9. Filoviruses: Ecology, Molecular Biology and EvolutionHeinz Feldmann10. An Orchestra of Reovirus Receptors: Still Searching for the ConductorTerence Dermody, Pavithra Aravamudhan and Danica Sutherland 11. Antiviral immune response and the route of infection in Drosophila melanogasterMaria-Carla Saleh12. Changing role of wild birds in the epidemiology of avian influenza A virusesThijs Kuiken13. Intracellular Antiviral ImmunityLeo C. James14. How does vaccinia virus interfere with interferon?Geoffrey Smith