Advances in Virus Research
Description
Key Features
- Presents a valuable resource for information on all topics of virus research, from bacteriophages to human viruses
- Provides a longstanding record for authoritative coverage by first-class experts
- Includes work from a dedicated team of editors who assure that articles are timely and informative
Readership
Table of Contents
1. The Species Problem in Virology
Marc H. Van Regenmortel
2. The Role of Immune Responses in HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission
Julie Overbaugh and Caitlin Milligan
3. African swine fever virus biology and vaccine approaches
Juergen A. Richt
4. Morbillivirus Pathogenesis and Virus-Host Interactions
Veronika von Messling
5. Viruses of Plant-Interacting Fungi
Nobuhiro Suzuki
6. Protein localization and interaction studies in plants: toward defining complete proteomes by visualization
Michael Goodin
7. So what have plant viruses ever done for virology and molecular biology?
George P. Lomonossoff
8. Respiratory coronaviruses and their reservoirs
Christian Drosten
9. Filoviruses: Ecology, Molecular Biology and Evolution
Heinz Feldmann
10. An Orchestra of Reovirus Receptors: Still Searching for the Conductor
Terence Dermody, Pavithra Aravamudhan and Danica Sutherland
11. Antiviral immune response and the route of infection in Drosophila melanogaster
Maria-Carla Saleh
12. Changing role of wild birds in the epidemiology of avian influenza A viruses
Thijs Kuiken
13. Intracellular Antiviral Immunity
Leo C. James
14. How does vaccinia virus interfere with interferon?
Geoffrey Smith
Product details
- No. of pages: 402
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: March 15, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128155356
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128152010
About the Serial Editors
Margaret Kielian
Affiliations and Expertise
Thomas Mettenleiter
Nationality: German
1963-1967: Elementary School
1967-1976: High School (Gymnasium)
1976: Diploma (Abitur)
1976-1977: Compulsory Military Service
1977-1982: Study of biology at Tuebingen University, Germany
1982-1985: Ph.D. work at Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals,
Tuebingen, Germany
1985: Ph.D. in Genetics
1986-1987: Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Department of Microbiology
1988-today: Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals
1990: 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, Germany
since 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.