Advances in Virus Research

Professor Karl Maramorosch works at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Born: March 18, 1957 in Goeppingen, Germany Nationality: German 1963-1967: Elementary School 1967-1976: High School (Gymnasium) 1976: Diploma (Abitur) 1976-1977: Compulsory Military Service 1977-1982: Study of biology at Tuebingen University, Germany 1982-1985: Ph.D. work at Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Tuebingen, Germany 1985: Ph.D. in Genetics 1986-1987: Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Department of Microbiology 1988-today: Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals 1990: 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, Germany since 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.