Virus Entry

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 host Jose A. Navarro, Jesus A. Sanchez-Navarro and Vicente Pallas 2. Entry of bunyaviruses into plants and vectors Yuting Chen, Moshe Dessau, Dorith Rotenberg, David A. Rasmussen and Anna E. Whitfield 3. How non-enveloped viruses hijack host machineries to cause infection Chelsey C. Spriggs, Mara C. Harwood and Billy Tsai 4. Developments in single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence-based approaches for studying viral envelope glycoprotein dynamics and membrane fusion Angela R. Howard and James B. Munro 5. Structural and cellular biology of rhabdovirus entry Laura Belot, Aurélie Albertini and Yves Gaudin 6. Hantavirus entry: Perspectives and recent advances Eva Mittler, Maria Eugenia Dieterle, Lara M. Kleinfelter, Megan M. Slough, Kartik Chandran and Rohit K. Jangra 7. Common characteristics and unique features: A comparison of the fusion machinery of the alphaherpesviruses Pseudorabies virus and Herpes simplex virus Melina Vallbracht, Marija Backovic, Barbara G. Klupp, Felix A. Rey and Thomas C. Mettenleiter 8. Entry of betaherpesviruses Mitsuhiro Nishimura and Yasuko Mori 9. Gammaherpesvirus entry and fusion: A tale how two human pathogenic viruses enter their host cells Britta S. Möhl, Jia Chen and Richard Longnecker