This thematic series contains a collection of reviews highlighting the contribution of capsid and their interactors to each of the different HIV-1 replication steps, with the final goal of generating a comprehensive and educational material with the most up to date information.
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This series will highlight scientific challenges in understanding HIV diversity worldwide, HIV immunopathogenesis research relevant to the developing world and basic biology research that emphasizes the HIV-1 strains that predominate in low- and middle-income countries.
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This series will shed light on the important contributions that humanized mouse models have made to fundamental aspects of HIV research, as well as areas of improvement of the current models, how they should be considered in planning future experiments that use these systems, and what might be expected from the next generation of precision small animal models for HIV research.
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Endogenous Retroviruses in Evolution and Disease
Cross-journal collection
HTLV-1: a re-emerging human pathogen
Edited by Genoveffa Franchini and Cynthia Masison
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV
Edited by Rogier Sanders and Marit van Gils
Measuring HIV-1 persistence in vivo
Edited by Ben Berkhout and Alexander Pasternak
Disruptive technologies in retrovirus research
Edited by Johnson Mak
01 December 2020
06 August 2020
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The Retrovirology Young Scientist Award was introduced in 2020 for the first time, to award young researchers who have published a research article in Retrovirology in the previous 2 years that made a significant contribution to the field.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2020 winner: Dr. Michael Martinez, for his important contributions to HTLV-1 research. The winning Retrovirology article is available here.
Michael Martinez is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and a resident in the Combined Veterinary Anatomic Pathology and PhD training program at The Ohio State University, USA. He works in the laboratory of Dr. Patrick Green, with a keen interest in the intersection of viruses and cancer.
Retrovirology celebrated its fifteenth year as a leader in human and animal retrovirus research.
Join us as we look back at some of the journal's highlights and milestones as we look forward to the next fifteen years.
Editors-in-Chief
Johnson Mak, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Australia
Susan Ross, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Editor Emeritus
Andrew Lever, University of Cambridge, UK
Founding Editor
Kuan-Teh Jeang, National Institutes of Health, USA
American Society for Virology (ASV)
Retrovirology is an affiliated journal of the ASV, which promotes exchange of information and stimulates discussion and collaboration among virologists.
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Australasian Virology Society (AVS)
Retrovirology is an affiliated journal of the AVS, which aims to promote, encourage, support and advocate for the discipline of virology in the Australasian region.
All AVS members are eligible for a 15% discount when publishing with Retrovirology.
Retrovirology is an open access, online journal that publishes stringently peer-reviewed, high-impact articles on host-pathogen interactions, fundamental mechanisms of replication, immune defenses, animal models, and clinical science relating to retroviruses. Retroviruses are pleiotropically found in animals. Well-described examples include avian, murine and primate retroviruses.
Two human retroviruses are especially important pathogens. These are the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and the human T-cell leukemia virus, HTLV. HIV causes AIDS while HTLV-1 is the etiological agent for adult T-cell leukemia and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis. Retrovirology aims to cover comprehensively all aspects of human and animal retrovirus research.
Professor Mak is a native of Hong Kong who undertook his undergraduate and post-graduate training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. During his PhD Johnson worked with Professor Lawrence Kleiman at the McGill AIDS Centre studying packaging of primer tRNA into HIV. He subsequently moved to Melbourne, Australia to continue work on HIV assembly at the Burnet Institute under the guidance of Professor Suzanne Crowe. He is currently a Professor at the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast. He has a broad research portfolio in HIV having studied primer tRNAs in retroviruses, genomic RNA packaging and dimerization, cholesterol and lipids in HIV, viral-host interactions, imaging of HIV and analysis of recombination and mutation in HIV using next generation sequencing. His team pioneered the production of full-length recombinant HIV Gag for biochemical and biophysical analyses of HIV assembly. Recently Johnson and his team have described a pre-entry priming process for HIV.
Susan R. Ross, PhD is Sweeney Basic Sciences Professor of and Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the UIC College of Medicine. Dr. Ross's research interests are in the genetics of host-virus interactions, particularly retroviruses and new world arenaviruses. Dr. Ross was on the faculty in Biochemistry at UIC from 1983-94. In 1994, she moved to the Microbiology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also served as Associate Dean for Biomedical Graduate Studies from 2002-12. In 2015, she moved to UIC to assume the Head position.
Dr. Ross has served on numerous review panels and editorial boards, including the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the NIH, Senior Editor for the Journal of Virology, Section Editor of PLOS Pathogens and on the Editorial Committee of the Annual Review of Virology. Dr. Ross has received several awards for teaching and research, including the ASM Wellcome Visiting Professorship, the ASM International Professorship and the Center for Retrovirus Research Distinguished Research Career Award (Ohio State University). Dr. Ross was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2002 and an AAAS Fellow in 2009.
Speed
42 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
35 days to first decision for all manuscripts
116 days from submission to acceptance
13 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
4.183 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.514 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.000 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.768 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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