1. Introduction: A Short History of Virology 2. Virion Structure, Genome Organization and Taxonomy of Viruses 3. Replication and Expression Strategies of Viruses 4. Origins and Evolution of Viruses 5. Host Range, Host-Virus Interactions and Virus Transmission 6. Viruses as Pathogens: Plant Viruses 7. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses, with Emphasis on Human Viruses 8. Viruses as Pathogens: Animal Viruses Affecting Wild and Domesticated Species 9. Viruses of Prokaryotes, Protozoa, Fungi and Chromista 10. Host-Virus Interactions: Battles Between Viruses and Their Hosts 11. Beneficial Interactions with Viruses 12. Viruses as Tools of Biotechnology: Therapeutic Agents, Carriers of Therapeutic Agents and Genes, Nanomaterials, and More 13. Viruses as Targets for Biotechnology: Diagnosis and Detection, Transgenesis and Rnai- and CRISPR/Cas Engineered Resistance 14. Concluding Thoughts: It’s A Viral World
Dr. Tennant received her PhD from Cornell University were she also
completed her postdoc prior to returning to Jamaica as a Professor
within the Life Sciences at The University of the West Indies. She
has been a Visiting Scientist at Cornell University, US Pacific
Basin Agricultural Research Center, and Texas A&M and a
visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. She
has edited or co-edited 6 books and contributed chapters to an
additional 7 volumes. She has received numerous awards, including
Principal’s Award for the Best Publication, Principal’s Award for
the Most Outstanding Researcher, HKA Career Hall of Fame Award, and
Faculty’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. Dr. Gustavo Fermin is
currently the Programme Coordinator of the United Nations
University Biotechnology Programme for Latin America and the
Caribbean (UNU-BIOLAC). Dr. Fermin is a Biologist from Universidad
de Los Andes (ULA), where he also obtained an MSc in Molecular
Biology– shortly after which he began his doctoral studies at
Cornell University in Ithaca and Geneva, New York. His research in
New York and later in Hawaii with Dr. Dennis Gonsalves focused on
creating and molecularly characterising transgenic plants resistant
to one or several viruses simultaneously thanks to engineered
native or synthetic transgenes. He has taught genetics, genetic
engineering, molecular ecology and bioethics, among other advanced
courses. An important part of his work has dealt with the education
and training of young students in Latin America (Venezuela, El
Salvador, Colombia, etc.), and more recently in Africa where he
taught at the African-American University of Central Africa
(Equatorial Guinea).
Dr. Jerome Foster is currently the Biochemistry Coordinator in the
Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences at
the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus where
he teaches molecular biology and other health-related biochemistry
topics. He has expertise in molecular genetics with over two
decades of experience generating and analysing viral sequence data
using phylogenetic techniques with much of his work focused on
pathogens among alphaviruses, coronaviruses and flaviviruses, such
as dengue viruses.
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