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

• 1. Key checkpoints in the movement of plant viruses through the hostJose A. Navarro, Jesus A. Sanchez-Navarro and Vicente Pallas2. Entry of bunyaviruses into plants and vectorsYuting Chen, Moshe Dessau, Dorith Rotenberg, David A. Rasmussen and Anna E. Whitfield3. How non-enveloped viruses hijack host machineries to cause infectionChelsey C. Spriggs, Mara C. Harwood and Billy Tsai4. Developments in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence-based approaches for studying viral envelope glycoprotein dynamics and membrane fusionAngela R. Howard and James B. Munro5. Structural and cellular biology of rhabdovirus entryLaura Belot, Aurélie Albertini and Yves Gaudin6. Hantavirus entry: Perspectives and recent advancesEva Mittler, Maria Eugenia Dieterle, Lara M. Kleinfelter, Megan M. Slough, Kartik Chandran and Rohit K. Jangra7. Common characteristics and unique features: A comparison of the fusion machinery of the alphaherpesviruses Pseudorabies virus and Herpes simplex virusMelina Vallbracht, Marija Backovic, Barbara G. Klupp, Felix A. Rey and Thomas C. Mettenleiter8. Entry of betaherpesvirusesMitsuhiro Nishimura and Yasuko Mori9. Gammaherpesvirus entry and fusion: A tale how two human pathogenic viruses enter their host cellsBritta S. Möhl, Jia Chen and Richard Longnecker