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Ehud Lavi
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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Susan R. Weiss
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University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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Susan T. Hingley
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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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In 1996 the International Committee for Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) recognized the name Nidovirales, as the formal name for Coronaviridae and A rteriviridae. In recognition of this change, and in response to the wishes of our colleagues we named this meeting for the first time "The International Symposium of Nidoviruses". The meeting in the wooded environment of Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, provided a stimulating opportunity for assessing the progress made in the field since the last meeting in Segovia Spain in 1997. Over 150 scientists from academia and industry attended the meeting. The meeting hosted senior members of the Nidovirus community, some of whom have been studying the subject for over 20 years, as well as younger scientists, the next generation of Nidoviro10gists. The traditional informal format, the shared meals, the social activities and the relatively inexpensive venue made the meeting a popular adventure. In her opening remarks Susan Weiss showed pictures from previous meetings, reminding us how young we used to look. Neal Nathanson was our keynote speaker at the opening night, giving an overview on how viral pathogenesis studies helped in shaping the evolution of viral research and vaccine development. The scientific program of the meeting was divided into 9 sessions including lO keynote presentations. The meeting opened with a session on epidemiology, evolution and genome structure. Sasha Gorbalenya shared with us insights gained from comparative sequence analysis, emphasizing the unifying traits among nidovriuses, but also pointed out the remaining "black holes".
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Table of contents (102 chapters)
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Pathogenesis
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- Norio Hirano, Koujiro Tohyama, Hideharu Taira, Tsutomu Hashikawa
Pages 127-132
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- Jayasri Das Sarma, Li Fu, Susan R. Weiss, Ehud Lavi
Pages 133-137
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- Sonia Navas, Su-Hun Seo, Ming Ming Chua, Jayasri Das Sarma, Susan T. Hingley, Ehud Lavi et al.
Pages 139-144
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- Shutoku Matsuyama, Rihito Watanabe, Fumihiro Taguchi
Pages 145-148
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- Norio Hirano, Koujiro Tohyama, Nobuyo Ootani, Tsutomu Hashikawa
Pages 149-154
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- Jayasri Das Sarma, Li Fu, Ehud Lavi
Pages 155-157
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- L. De Groot, J. D. Piñón, J. Phillips, E. Lavi, S. R. Weiss
Pages 159-162
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- Talya Schwartz, Li Fu, Ehud Lavi
Pages 163-167
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- Jean C. Tsai, Susan R. Weiss
Pages 169-172
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Viral entry, receptors, fusion, and glycoprotein functions
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- Kathryn V. Holmes, Bruce D. Zelus, Jeanne H. Schickli, Susan R. Weiss
Pages 173-181
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- Dianna M. Blau, Kathryn V. Holmes
Pages 193-198
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- David E. Wentworth, Kathryn V. Holmes
Pages 199-204
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- Kevin W. Chang, James L. Gombold
Pages 205-211
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- Fumihiro Taguchi, Yohko K. Shimazaki
Pages 213-218
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- Christel Scwegmann, Gert Zimmer, Georg Herrler
Pages 219-223
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- Carl A. Gagnon, Yves Langelier, Bernard Massie, Serge Dea
Pages 225-231
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- Shutoku Matsuyama, Fumihiro Taguchi
Pages 233-236
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- Nobuhisa Ohtsuka, Kimiyuki Tsuchiya, Eiichi Honda, Fumihiro Taguchi
Pages 237-240
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Reviews
'The quality of the presentations is excellent. This book should be studied by every 'RNA virologist', but the intricate replication strategies and other features of these viruses are of general interest to all virologists. [..]worth the expense and is highly recommended.'
Microbiology Today, August (2002)