Journal of General Virology
Interim Editor-in-Chief
Mark Harris University of Leeds, UK
Editors
Heather E. Allison Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Liverpool, UK
Bacteriophages, prophages, prophage- host control, viromics, regulation of bacteriophage genes.
Olivier Andreoletti Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse, France
Prion disease, Prion like disease, pathogenesis, neurodegeneration.
Dalan Bailey The Pirbright Institute, UK
Negative sense RNA viruses, paramyxoviruses, orthopneumoviruses, SARS-CoV-2, innate immunity, viral entry and exit, virus host-range, emerging pathogens, zoonoses, One Health.
Sharon Brookes School of Biosciences, University of Surrey. Board member for Moredun Research Institute and Mums in Science
Zoonotic and reverse zoonotic virology, one health, veterinary virology, animal models of human disease, cross species virus transmission and disease pathogenesis - mammalian and avian.
Sarah Caddy Cornell University, USA
Rotaviruses, LCMV and influenza. We are especially interested in maternal and neonatal immunity of different species, and new vaccine developments.
Christine Goffinet Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
HIV-1 infection and latency, alphavirus and SARS-CoV-2:host interaction, IFN-induced restriction factors, host cofactors, sensing, species-specific aspects of virus infection, cell-to-cell transmission.
Daniel Goldhill Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK
Influenza, drug resistance, adaptation, host-switching, pandemic preparedness, nucleoside analogues, evolutionary topics, modelling and sequence data.
Anthony Griffiths University of Missouri, USA
Development and refinement of animal models for highly pathogenic emerging and zoonotic viruses (e.g., filoviruses, henipaviruses, coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, hantaviruses).
David Hughes The University of St Andrews, UK
Negative sense RNA viruses, paramyxoviruses, pneumoviruses, interferon and antiviral signalling, innate immunity, viral vectors for cell and gene therapy.
Valeria Lulla University of Cambridge, UK
Enterovirus, astrovirus, flavivirus, alphavirus, positive-strand RNA viruses, replication, translation, viral pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions.
Andrew Macdonald University of Leeds, UK
Tumour virology, Oncogenic viruses; cell biology; virology; signalling.
Stephen Polyak University of Washington, USA
Antiviral drugs, both directly acting antivirals (DAA) and host-targeting antivirals (HTA), antiviral drug resistance, antiviral natural products, antiviral drug combinations.
Peter Revill Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Australia
Molecular virology of hepatitis B virus (HBV), contribution of different HBV genotypes and variants to the striking differences in natural history, disease progression and global treatment responses.
Richard Sloan University of Edinburgh Institute, UK
Antiviral therapeutics, antiviral innate immunity, virus entry, coronaviruses, HIV, retroviruses, emerging viruses, One Health, bat viruses and bat antiviral immunity.
Blair Strang University of London, UK
Human cytomegalovirus, herpes, DNA replication, DNA polymerase, protein-protein interaction, kinase, phosphorylation, intracellular signalling, drug discovery/development, high-throughput screening (chemical and genetic), vertical transmission, placental infection.
Yingjie Sun Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS, China
Molecular pathogenesis of paramyxoviruses, aiming to elucidate the interplay between viral replication, host immune regulation, and cellular stress responses. By dissecting the molecular basis of virus-host interactions, this work offers potential applications in vaccine development, antiviral target discovery, disease control, and cross-species transmission risk assessment.
Manli Wang Wuhan Institute of Virology, China
Bunyaviruses; SARS-CoV-2; Baculovirus; Virus-host interaction; Viral pathogenesis and antiviral research, insect viruses, Arboviruses.
Murilo Zerbini Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil
Geminivirus, begomovirus, variability, virus evolution, fitness, virus emergence, virus taxonomy.
Board of Reviewers
Evelien Adriaenssens Quadram Institute, UK
Bacteriophage, taxonomy, gut microbiome, viromics, viral community diversity, spread of pathogenic viruses.
Eduardo Bejarano University of Malaga – CSIC, Spain
Plant-virus interaction, DNA viruses.
Paul Britton The Pirbright Institute, UK
Nidoviruses, infectious bronchitis virus, positive sense RNA viruses.
Andrew Broadbent University of Maryland, USA
Molecular virology, double-stranded RNA viruses, segmented RNA viruses, viral pathogenesis, viral immunosuppression.
Chloe James University of Salford, UK
Bacteriophages, Prophages, Phage Therapy, Phage Ecology
Colin Crump University of Cambridge, UK
Virus–cell interactions, virus assembly and egress, herpesviruses, polyomaviruses.
Juan Fontana University of Leeds, UK
Structural characterisation of macromolecular assemblies, viruses that are a current public health risk (like HIV, Influenza, herpesviruses and bunyaviruses), using cryo-EM, combined with other structural approaches.
Caroline Goujon IRIM, France
Intrinsic immunity, innate immunity, interferon, restriction factors, HIV-1, influenza A virus, SARS-CoV-2, CRISPR screens.
Anthony Griffiths Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA
BSL-4/CL4, high consequence pathogens, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Lassa virus, Nipah virus, vaccine, therapeutic, animal models, non-human primate.
Mark Harris University of Leeds, UK
RNA viruses, particularly positive strand.
Amy Hartman Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Negative strand RNA viruses, emerging viruses, bunyaviruses, filoviruses, arenaviruses, Rift Valley fever, Ebola, neurotropic viruses, blood brain barrier, CNS infections, vector borne viruses (arboviruses), zoonotic viruses, vertical transmission, foetal infections, placental infections, animal models (rodents, ferrets, livestock, monkeys), aerosol exposure, vaccines.
Theodora Hatziioannou The Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Retrovirology, HIV-1, restriction factors, animal models, virus entry.
Elisabeth Herniou Insect Biology Research Institute, UMR 7261, CNRS-Université de Tours, France
Insect viruses, phylogenetic, comparative genomics, viral diversity, Taxonomy, Baculoviridae, Polydnaviridae, Nudiviridae.
Edward Hutchinson University of Glasgow, UK
Influenza viruses, molecular biology, proteomics, RNA viruses.
Ryan Langlois University of Minnesota, USA
Antiviral immunity, influenza virus, virus host interactions, vaccination, virus transmission, virus evolution.
Sarah Londrigan University of Melbourne, Australia
Immunology, Viral Infectious Diseases, Bacterial and Parasitic Infections, Influenza
Chris McCormick University of Southampton, UK
Hepatitis C and related viruses, Norovirus, Hepacivirus, Flavivirus, Pestivirus, Pegivirus, Enterovirus.
Gerald McInerney Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Virus-host interactions, alphaviruses, stress granules.
Eng Eong Ooi Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore
Dengue, other flaviviruses, host–pathogen interaction, immunity.
Viviana Parreno Instituto de Virologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (INTA), Argentina
Viral enteric pathogens: Rotavirus, coronavirus, norovirus; Viral vaccines for bovines and horses: development vaccines and lab animal models for vaccine potency testing.
Blanca Perez-Sepulveda University of Liverpool, UK
Bacteriophages, Prophages, Phage Genomics, Phage-Host Interactions, Phage Isolation & Characterisation
Marine Petit University of Surrey, UK
Understanding the tick-borne virus interactions with their tick vector at the cellular level. Using a system biology approach Marine's research aim to increase the understanding of tick immune response to viruses.
Andreas Pichlmair Technical University of Munich, Germany
Antiviral innate immunity, virus-host interactions, mass spectrometry.
Nicola Rose NIBSC, UK
Flaviviruses, hepaciviruses, rotavirus, retroviruses, models of acute and chronic viral infection and disease; pathogenesis, protection, host genetics and susceptibility, viral hepatitis, viral vaccines, flaviviruses, in vivo model systems, pathogenesis.
Lee Sherry University of Glasgow, UK
Determining the structural and biological differences between vaccine, acute respiratory and virulent systemic strains of Feline Calicivirus using the following techniques: virus culture and purification for Cryo-EM analysis, virus rescue and titration, viral entry assays, immune blotting and fluorescence microscopy
Silke Stertz University of Zurich, Switzerland
Influenza virus entry, RNAi screens for host factors required for replication, antivirals for influenza, virus host interactions, restriction factors for influenza viruses (Mx, IFITM etc.), Orthomyxovirus, host.
Mark Wills University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
Herpesviruses, immunevasion, immunology, latency, T cells, NK cells, cytomegalovirus.