Preface

SECTION I: REPLICATION

1. Complex Formation and Template Recognition in Poliovirus RNA Replication

Jonathan S. Towner

Holger H. Roehl

Stephen Todd

Todd B. Parsley

Tri V. Ho

Bert L. Semler

2. Molecular Biology of HIV Infection

Didier Trono

3. Enzymology of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 DNA Replication: Viral DNA Replication in the Context of the Eukaryotic DNA Replication Machinery

Daniel S. Fierer

Mark D. Challberg

4. Position-Specific Integration of a Yeast Retrovirus-Like Element

Jacqueline Kirchner

Suzanne Sandemeyer

SECTION II: PATHOGENESIS

5. Borna Disease Virus: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis

W. Ian Lipkin

Anette Schneemann

Patrick A. Schneider

Marylou V. Solbrig

Thomas Briese

Ann J. Lewis

6. Molecular Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Hantaviruses Endemic in North American Rodents

Stephen St. Jeor

Joan Rowe

Jeff Riolo

Elmer Otteson

Winnie Henderson

Dale Netski

7. Persistence and Reactivation of Small DNA Virsues: Implications for Anti-Cancer and Gene Therapy Strategies

F. F. Shadan

Luis P. Villarreal

8. Cell Transformation by Human Papillomaviruses

Lawrence Banks

9. Early Events in Leukemogenesis by Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus

Hung Fan

Barbara Belli

B. Kay Brightman

Michael Okimoto

10. Interactions between Complement, Antibodies and NK Cells: Role in Pathogenesis of Lentivirus Infections

W. Edward Robinson, Jr.

11. Hepatitis A Virus: An Unusual Picornavirus

Ellie Ehrenfeld

SECTION III: GENE EXPRESSION

12. A Study of Genetic Variation in Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Novel Variants and Their Significance

Shahid Jameel

Aswini Panigrahi

Mohammad Zafrullah

Juan Roca

Masood Ahmad

Gurpreet Singh Kapoor

Shobha Sehgal

Subrat Kumar Acharya

Subrat Kumar Panda

13. Transcriptional Regulation of the AcNPV Polyhedrin Gene Promoter

S. Habib

C. A. Azim

S. Burma

U. Chatterjee

P. Das

A. Jain

B. Mukherjee

K. Natarajan

A. Ranjan

S. E. Hasnain

14. Comparative Sequence Analysis of the Rotavirus Gene 7 Encoding the Non-structural Protein NSP3 Identifies a Highly Conserved 3' Untranslated Region That Binds to Cellular Factors: Implications for the Control of NSP3 Expression and Virus Replication

C. Durga Rao

15. In Vivo Approaches to Studying Human Papillomaviruses

Sudhir Krishna

L. S. Shashidhara

Nirupama Deshpande

Betty Daniel

Vinay Tergaonkar

16. Functional Regulation of the HIV-1 Promoter

Mauro Giacca

17. The Role of Host Cell Mechinery in the Transcription of the Herpes Simplex Virus Genome

Edward K. Wagner

18. Properties and Interactions of an HSV-1 Immediate Early Regulatory Protein and Its Effect on Host Cell Splicing

Rozanne M. Sandri-Goldin

19. Mutational Analysis of the X Protein of Hepatitis B Virus for Transactivation Function

Vijay Kumar

Ravinder Kumar

20. Characterization of an Internal Ribosome Entry Site in Hepatitis C Virus Genome

Naushad Ali

Changyu Wang

Aleem Siddiqui

SECTION IV: VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS

21. The Role of the Cellular Platelet-derived Growth Factor Receptor in Cell Transformation by the Bovine Papillomavirus E5 Protein

Laura A. Nilson

Lisa M. Petti

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa

David J. Riese II

Eun-Seong Hwang

Timothy Nottoli

Carl Henningson Jr.

Glenda W. Polack

Deena M. Kegler-Ebo

Daniel DiMaio

22. Virus-Receptor Interactions

Alan L. Goldin

23. Role of Mismatches in the Structure and Functions of Adenovirus VAI RNA

Pawan Malhotra

Ghanshyam D. Ghadge

Bayar Thimmapaya

SECTION V: VECTORS AND VACCINES

24. Recombinant Rotavirus-VP4 Expression: DNA Immunizations and Construction of Adenovirus/VP4 Chimeras

Maosheng Sun

Iva Afrikanova

Susana Giambiagi

Giorgio Stanta

Oscar Burrone

25. Immunoreactivity of Chimeric Proteins Carrying the HIV-I Epitope IGPGRAF: Conformation and Antigenicity

S. G. Tisminetzky

E. A. Scodeller

M. Schiapacassi

E. Buratti

Y. Chen

F. E. Baralle

26. Therapeutic Vaccine Studies of Viral Hepatitis B in Animal Models

Yu-Mei Wen

Sheng-Qi Guo

Si-Dong Xiong

27. Hepatitis E Virus: An Overview

Subrat Kumar Panda

Santosh Kumar Nanda

Hemlata Duragapal

Israrul Haque Ansari

Mohammad Zafrullah

Hakan Ozdener

Shahid Jameel

Award Winning Abstracts

List of Submitted Abstracts