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The following International Society for NeuroVirology members
maintain web pages which describe their professional qualifications,
research interests, and departmental/organizational affiliations.
For more information, click on the member's name.
- Dr. Brian Wigdahl
- Transcriptional regulation of retroviruses within cells of
the CNS
- Dr.
Igor J. Koralnik - Basic science interests - immunopathogenesis
of JC virus in progressive multifocal leukoencepahlopathy; Clinical
interests: neurologic manifestations of HIV infection. Director
of the HIV/Neurology
Center.
- Dr. Kenneth
Tyler - Research Interests: NF-kappaB, TRAIL, microarray,
myocarditis, caspase-activation, cell cycle, Y2H, and neuronal
apoptosis
- Dr.
Robert Fujinami - Studies of viral pathogenesis using an
animal model for the human demyelinating disease known as multiple
sclerosis
- Dr.
Nigel Fraser - HSV-1 latency, the role of the immune system
in limiting the spread of HSV, development of gene therapy vector
systems for use in the nervous system
- Dr.
Walter Atwood - Studies of JC virus (JCV) and HIV-1 pathogenesis
in the human central nervous system
- Dr.
E. Antonio Chiocca - Gene transfer technologies and
applications to disorders of the central nervous system
- Dr. Atze T. Das - A member of the Berkhout
research group; research interests include HIV-1 vaccine
development using a tetracycline-dependent HIV-1 molecular clone
- Dr.
John Fazakerley - viral CNS infections, transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies, and viral apoptosis.
- Dr.
Harris Gelbard - Major research interests include (i) the
effects of chronic inflammation on neuronal signal transduction,
as well as dendrito- and synaptogenesis in the mammalian nervous
system, (ii) human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection
as a model for oxidative stress and programmed cell death in
the CNS, and (iii) interactions between dopamine and glutamate
in the developing and adult nervous system.
- Dr. Clinton
Jones - Research interests include herpesvirus latency viral
gene expression and regulation of cell cycle by herpesvirus and
mycotoxins.
- Dr. William
Karpus - Studies in his laboratory focus on the pathogenesis
and regulation of autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal
model of human multiple sclerosis (MS).
- Dr.
Peter G. E. Kennedy - His main interest is in neurovirology,
especially Varicella zoster virus (VZV) latency in the human
nervous system. His group has recently defined unambiguously
the cellular location of latent VZV in human ganglia and has
also carried out a major study of VZV gene expression during
ganglionic latency. His other main interest is in African
trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), with close collaboration
with Professor Max Murray's group in the Glasgow University's
Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies. The major interest
is in understanding the pathogenesis of the post-treatment reactive
encephalopathy using a mouse model, with the primary aim of developing
more effective therapies for this condition.
- Dr.
Rick Meeker - Research interests include brain cholinergic
receptors, vasopressin, AIDS research, HIV and FIV.
- Dr.
Richard J. Miller - Research interests include molecular
pharmacology of receptors, signal transduction and synaptic transmission,
regulation of neuronal receptors and ion channels, and molecular
aspects of nerve cell degeneration.
- Prof.
V. Hugh Perry - Research efforts focus on inflammation in
the CNS and its contribution to neurological disease.
- Dr. Kenneth Tyler
- His laboratory uses reoviruses as an experimental model system
to investigate the role played by viral genes and proteins in
pathogenesis and cell death and the signaling pathways by which
this occurs.
- Dr. Susan
Weiss (alternate
link)- Her lab is involved in the study of the murine coronavirus,
mouse hepatitis virus (MHV). This virus is of importance in that
infection of rodents with MHV provides one of the best model
systems for the study of human demyelinating diseases such as
Multiple Sclerosis.
- Dr.
Igor Koralnik - Dr. Koralnik is director of the HIV/Neurology
Center, which offers comprehensive care for acute and chronic
neurological problems in people with HIV infection or AIDS.
- David B. Clifford, M.D. - Dr. Clifford has a broad interest in neuropharmacology. Development of more successful medical management of neurologic disease has been his clinical focus, and has included participation in studies of epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and virtually all neurologic complications of HIV.
- Richard J. Frisque, Ph.D. - Dr. Frisque's laboratorys research interests center on the unique biology of the human polyomavirus, JC virus (JCV).
- Michael J. Buchmeier, Ph.D. - Dr. Buchmeier's laboratory is interested in understanding the function(s) of viral glycoproteins and how these molecules interact with the host during infection. To understand functions of these proteins, he has utilized the murine coronavirus, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), which encodes a large multifunctional spike glycoprotein, S, with receptor recognition, binding and membrane fusion activities.
- Robert M. Levy, M.D., Ph.D. - Dr. Levy's current research efforts focus on examination of the blood brain barrier and novel methods of drug delivery to the central nervous system.
- Professor S. Louise Cosby, Ph.D. - Present research concentrates on the neuropathogenesis of morbilliviruses and the basis of neurovirulence in viruses.
- David M. Knipe, Ph.D. - Dr. Knipe's laboratory studies the mechanisms by which herpes simplex virus (HSV) undergoes a productive infection in epithelial cells versus a latent infection in neurons, the mechanisms of the host immune response to viral infection, and the use of mutant strains of HSV as a herpes vaccine and as a vaccine vector.
- Gabriele Arendt, M.D. - (German site)
- Gregory Atkins, Ph.D., D. Sc. - Dr. Atkins' laboratory is developing a new virus vector system based on the Semliki Forest virus (SFV) genome.
- Xiaoli Yu, Ph.D. - Dr. Yu is a member of the Neurology Department at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
- Larisa Poluektova, Ph.D. - Dr. Poluektova is a member of the Center for Neurovirology and Neurodegenerative Disorders (CNND) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
- Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Becker - Dr. Becker performs his research at the Abteilung Psychiatrie II
der Universität Ulm.
- Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D. - Dr. Fox's laboratory is located at the Scripps Research Institute.
- Susan Morgello, M.D. - Dr. Morgello conducts her research in the Fishberg Department of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
- Joanne Marcario, Ph.D. - Dr. Marcario's laboratory is located at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
- M. Christine Zink, DVM, Ph.D. - Dr. Zink is a member of the Department of Comparative Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
- Elizabeth A. Hunsperger, Ph.D. - Dr. Hunsperger performs her research within the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the Colorado State University.
ISNV members interested in publicizing their web sites on
this page may submit their name, brief research description,
and web site address (URL) to webmaster@isnv.org.
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