Retrovirology

Johnson Mak, Editor-in-Chief

^{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 Ross, Editor-in-Chief

^{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.}