Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Tim Skern, PhD, Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Austria, retired from university position, still active in research
Fields of interest: RNA viruses, structure of viruses and viral proteins, virus-host interactions
Reviews in medical virology
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8865-5500
Twitter: @SkernTim


Editorial Board

Dr. Simona Abba', PhD, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection - National Research Council of Italy, Torino, Italy
     Fields of interest: Emerging Virus Diseases, Picornaviruses, Virus Vectors, Virus-Host Cell Interactions

Dr. Kalpana Agnihotri, PhD, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia
     Fields of interest: Animal Virus Pathogenesis, Diagnostics of Human/Animal Viruses, Human/Animal RNA Viruses, Phylogeny of Animal Viruses, Animal Rhabdoviruses, Emerging Virus Diseases, Fish viruses, Molecular Biologyof Animal Viruses, Veterinary viruses, Zoonoses

Dr. Graciela Andrei, PhD, Leuven Cancer Institute, Belgium
     Fields of interest: Animal Virus Pathogenesis, Animal Virus-Host Cell Interactions, Cytomegalovirus, Epstein Barr virus, Herpesviruses, Large DNA viruses, Papillomaviruses, Polyomavirus, Poxviruses, Varicella-Zoster Virus, Virus-Host Cell Interactions

Dr. Nicolás Bejerman, PhD, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
     Fields of interest: Plant viruses, virus taxonomy, virus diversity, virus discovery by NGS, metatranscriptomics analysis for virus discovery,  negative sense phytoviruses
Dr. Ana Cristina Bratanich, PhD, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
     Fields of interest:  Circoviruses, Diagnostics, Herpesviruses, Molecular Biology of Animal Viruses, Paramyxoviruses, Parvoviruses, Picornaviruses, Veterinary viruses, Viral molecular pathogenesis, Viral pathogenesis, Virus Vectors, Virus-Host Cell Interactions

Dr. Martin Chan, PhD, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
     Fields of interest: Gene therapy, genome-editing, gene delivery, CRISPR, norovirus, viral gastroenteritis, organoid

Prof. Zhenhai Chen, PhD, Yangzhou University, China
     Fields of interest: Arteriviruses; Coronaviruses; Paramyxoviruses; Picornaviruses; Pestiviruses; Adenoviruses; Circoviruses; Flaviviruses; Emerging virus diseases; Mononegaviruses; Veterinary viruses

Dr. Yoon-Seok Chung, PhD, National Institute of Health, Seoul , Republic of Korea
      Fields of interest: Virology, phylogenetics, NGS, molecular diagnois, digital PCR, LAMP

Dr. Robert Coutts, PhD, University of Hertfordshire, UK 
     Fields of interest: fungal viruses, closteroviruses, endornaviruses, partitiviruses, geminiviruses, tombusviruses

Dr. Akbar Dastjerdi, PhD, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Addlestone, UK
     Fields of interest: Herpesviruses, Caliciviruses, Circoviruses, Emerging Virus Diseases, Enteroviruses, Veterinary viruses 

Associate Professor Ralf Dietzgen, PhD, University of Queensland, Australia, retired
     Fields of interest: molecular virus-plant-insect interactions, virus biodiversity and Evolution, Reviews in fungal and plant virology

Dr. William Dundon, PhD, FAO/IAEA Animal Production and Health laboratory in Seibersdorf (Vienna), Austria
     Fields of interest: Animal Virus Pathogenesis, Human/Animal RNA Viruses, Molecular Pathogenesis of Animal Viruses, Animal Rhabdoviruses,  Emerging Virus Diseases, Influenza viruses, Molecular Biologyof Animal Viruses, Morbilliviruses, Orthomyxoviruses, Paramyxoviruses, Phylogeny, Poxviruses, Rabies virus, Vaccines, Veterinary viruses, Viral pathogenesis, Virus-Host Cell Interactions, Zoonoses

Dr. Hideki  Ebihara, PhD , National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
     Fields of interest: arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, ebola viruses, emerging virus diseases, filoviruses, marburgviruses, zoonoses 

Professor Teryl K. Frey, PhD, Atlanta, GA, USA, USA, Emeritus
     Fields of interest: RNA viruses, large DNA viruses

Dr. Ioly Kotta-Loizou, PhD, Imperial College London, UK
     Fields of interest: Animal Virus Pathogenesis, Animal Virus-Host Cell Interactions, Human/Animal RNA Viruses, Fungal viruses, Hepatitis virus C, Narnaviruses, Partitiviruses, Satellites, Virus Classification, Virus Taxonomy, Virus-Host Cell Interactions

Dr. Eric J  Kremer, PhD, Institut de Genetique Moleculaire Montpellier, France
     Fields of interest: adenoviridae, innate immunity, dendritic cells, intracellular trafficking

Dr. Artem Metlin, PhD, The Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
     Fields of interest: Animal Rhabdoviruses, Diagnostics, Emerging Virus Diseases, Fish viruses, Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Immunoprophylaxis, Influenza viruses, Molecular Biology of Animal Viruses, Mononegaviruses, Phylogeny, Prions, Rabies virus, RNA viruses, Vaccines, Veterinary viruses, Viral Immunology, Zoonoses

Dr. Eiji Morita , PhD, Hirosaki University, Japan
     Fields of interest: positive strand RNA viruses, virus particle formation, virus assembly and release, virus-host interaction, flavivirus, parvovirus

Dr. Jesus Navas-Castillo, PhD, University of Málaga, Spain
     Fields of interest: Emerging plant virus diseases, Closteroviruses, Diagnostics of Plant Viruses, Endornaviruses, Geminiviruses, Molecular Biology of Plant Viruses, Phylogeny of Plant Viruses, Plant Virus Evolution, Plant virus-host interactions, Satellites, Vector Transmission of Plant Viruses, Virus Classification, Virus Taxonomy

Morgana Barboza, PhD, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
     Fields of interest: Animal Virus Pathogenesis, Phylogeny of Animal Viruses, Molecular Biology of Animal Viruses, Orthomyxoviruses, Adenoviruses, Human respiratory syncytial viruses, Vector-borne viruses, Hepatitis C virus, Hepatitis B virus, HIV, Emerging Virus Diseases.

Dr. Hester O'Neill, PhD, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
     Fields of interest: Rotaviruses, Foot-and-mouth disease virus

Dr. Pablo Pineyro, PhD, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames, IA, USA, USA
     Fields of interest: Circoviruses, Coronaviruses, Molecular Biologyof Animal Viruses, Picornaviruses, Veterinary viruses, Viral Immunology

Dr. Roman Pogranichniy, PhD, Kansas University, Manhattan, KS, USA
     Fields of interest: Viral infectious diseases in animals, pathogenesis, development of new diagnostic and preventive methods

Dr. Michael Purdy, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Atlanta, GA, USA, USA
     Fields of interest: hepatitis E virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis A virus, hepatitis delta virus

Dr. Sheela Ramamoorthy, PhD, N.Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA
     Fields of interest: arteriviruses, anelloviruses (swine), circoviruses, coronaviruses, influenza viruses, parvoviruses 

Professor Carolina Scagnolari, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
     Fields of interest: AIDS, Animal virus host cell interactions, Antiviral agents and drugs, Clinical virology, Diagnostics of Human viruses, Emerging virus disease, Hepatitis C virus, HIV, Human respiratory syncytial virus, Orthomyxoviruses, Papillomavirus, Viral Immunology, Zoonoses

Dr. Zhongjie Shi, PhD, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
     Fields of interest: AIDS, anellovirus, antiviral agents and drugs, clinical virology, diagnostics of human/animal viruses, hepatitis viruses, herpesviruses, immunoprophylaxis, papillomaviruses, retroviruses, virus vectors

Dr. Hugo Soudeyns, PhD, Universite de Montreal , Canada
     Fields of interest: Immunology.HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis C, cell-mediated immune responses, immune reconstitution

Dr. Nobuhiro Suzuki, PhD,  Institute of Plant Sciences and Resources Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan, Japan
     Fields of interest: Fungal viruses, plant viruses, Reoviridae

Dr. Ayato Takada, PhD, Hokkaido University Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Japan
     Fields of interest: filoviruses, myxoviruses, influenza virus, virus evolution, phylogeny of animal viruses, virus entry, viral pathogenesis, vaccines, veterinary virology, zoonoses, emerging virus diseases

Dr. Massimo Turina, PhD, Italian National Research Council, Turin, Italy
     Fields of interest: virus-host interaction, plant viruses, mycoviruses

Dr. Ioannis Tzanetakis, PhD, University of Arkansas, USA
     Fields of interest: Plant virus epidemiology and virus-vector interactions, molecular biology and epidemiology of emaraviruses

Dr. Johannes Wittmann, PhD, Leibniz Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
     Fields of interest: Bacterial viruses, Bacteriophages

Dr. Stephen Lee Wylie, PhD, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
     Fields of interest: Fungal viruses, Diagnostics of plant viruses, Flexiviruses, Partitiviruses, Endornaviruses, Potyviruses

Dr. Yuchen Xia, PhD, Wuhan University, China
     Field of interest: hepatitis B virus, hepatitis D virus, oncolytic virus

Virology Division

Prof Sead Sabanadzovic, PhD, Mississippi State University, MS, USA
Fields of interest: Closteroviridae, Endornaviridae, Partitiviridae, Tymoviridae, Tombusviridae, Potyviridae, Bromoviridae, Secoviridae, Alpha-, Beta-, Gammaflexiviridae, Fungal viruses, phylogeny of plant viruses, vector transmission of plant viruses, diagnostics of plant viruses, plant virus Evolution

Taxonomy Editors

Dr. Steven Lee Allison, PhD, Freelance , Austria