
Advances in Virus Research
Description
Key Features
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Advances in Virus Research series
Readership
Table of Contents
- 1. Parainfluenza virus fusion/entry
Anne Moscona
2. Molecular archeology of viruses
Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer
3. A great ape perspective on the emergence and evolution of human viruses
Fabian H. Leendertz
4. Phage Therapy
Paul E. Turner
5. Alphavirus replication
Andres Merits
6. (Chapter title to be confirmed)
Moriah Louise Szpara
7. SARS-CoV-2 in animals
Thomas Christoph Mettenleiter and Martin Beer
Product details
- No. of pages: 110
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: August 3, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780323850902
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128246047
About the Editors
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.