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. Influenza A virus uncoatingYohei Yamauchi2. Structural and cellular biology of adeno-associated virus attachment and entryJames Zengel and Jan E. Carette3. From foes to friends: Viral infections expand the limits of host phenotypic plasticityRubén González, Anamarija Butković and Santiago F. Elena4. Exploration of the interactions between mycoviruses and Fusarium graminearumJisuk Yu and Kook-Hyung Kim5. Implications of mixed viral infections on plant disease ecology and evolutionCristina Alcaide, M. Pilar Rabadán, Manuel G. Moreno-Pérez and Pedro Gómez