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. Geminivirus structure and assemblyAntonette Bennett and Mavis Agbandje-McKenna2. Structure-guided paradigm shifts in flavivirus assembly and maturation mechanismsConrrad M. R. Nicholls, Madhumati Sevvana and Richard J. Kuhn3. Viral cell-to-cell spread: Conventional and non-conventional waysNicolas Cifuentes-Munoz, Farah El Najjar and Rebecca Ellis Dutch4. Structure and assembly of archaeal virusesDiana P. Baquero, Ying Liu, Fengbin Wang, Edward H. Egelman, David Prangishvili and Mart Krupovic5. Potyviral coat protein and genomic RNA: A striking partnership leading virion assembly and moreSandra Martínez-Turiño and Juan Antonio García6. Structure and assembly of double-stranded RNA mycovirusCarlos P. Mata, Javier M. Rodríguez, Nobuhiro Suzuki and José R. Castón7. Bluetongue virus assembly and exit pathwaysPolly Roy8. Current capsid assembly models of icosahedral nucleocytoviricota virusesYuejiao Xian and Chuan Xiao9. Quasi-enveloped hepatitis virus assembly and releaseZongdi Feng10. Betaherpesvirus assembly and egress: Recent advances illuminate the pathAmina S. Wofford, Ian McCusker, Jillian C. Green, Taylor A. Vensko and Philip E. Pellett