Latest Advances in Molecular and Cellular Virology
A special issue of Current Issues in Molecular Biology (ISSN 1467-3045). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2864
Special Issue Editors
Interests: viral evolution; molecular mechanisms of immune evasion; epitope immunodominance hierarchies; influenza; Sars-Cov-2; computational biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From phages that infected our monokaryotic forbears to the first transmission of the influenza virus among humans possibly more than 8000 years ago, through to the COVID-19 pandemic of recent years, and into unknown zoonoses and emergences that will continue to pose new threats to public health in the foreseeable future, we can see a clear and essential need to understand the molecular mechanisms of viral infection.
Rapid, recent developments in a new generation of investigatory tools enhance our ability to study viruses at multiple levels with a combination of genetic, structural, bioinformatics, and computational methods to augment in vitro, in vivo, and population-based studies.
We are pleased to announce a special edition of Current Issues in Molecular Biology devoted to reporting the lastest advances in molecular virology research. In this issue, we intend to focus primarily on studies of viral mechanisms that contribute to infectivity or transmissibility, virulence, and immune evasion. Importantly, we seek to understand the ongoing evolution of such mechanisms, which illuminate the battle lines of our continued coexistence with these pathogens, and which highlight promising new treatment strategies and frontiers in virus biology.
Dr. David MacLeod
Dr. David S. Silberstein
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viral evolution
- molecular virology
- immune evasion
- infectivity
- virulence factor
- antigen
- capsid
- transmissibilty
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