American Society for Virology

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The American Society for Virology (ASV) is an American specialist society and was founded in 1981 as the world's first purely virological society. It represents researchers from all areas of virology, basic virological research as well as medical-infectious virology; Headquarters: College Park, Maryland .

founding

Previously, virological researchers and medically active virologists were organized in the American Society for Microbiology and the International Association of Microbiological Societies . Due to the considerable differences between microbiological / bacteriological issues and virology, which is developing methodologically and scientifically independently, on the one hand, and the institutional dominance of bacteriologists, on the other, who understand virology as a branch of their subject, the conflicts culminated in the founding of the new professional society. Since the 1960s, virologists have felt insufficiently represented in the old specialist societies. After an application by leading virologists to found a virological specialist group within the American Society for Microbiology was rejected in 1966, virologists met for their own international congress in Helsinki in 1968 . In the following years, the problem of an independent specialist agency was discussed several times. The founding of the Society for Virology in 1990 in German-speaking countries had similar causes as a result of the lack of adequate representation of virological interests and issues in the DGHM .

The association was founded by 40 virologists on June 9, 1981 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago , the first ordinary meeting was held in August 1982 at Cornell University in Ithaca . The founding president was Wolfgang Joklik . At the same time as the founding and development of the society, the discovery of HIV infection and the knowledge about its worldwide spread represented a special challenge for modern, independent virology.

Specialist groups

The Association currently includes seven specialist groups for Plant Virology , Virus Ecology and virus evolution , animal viruses , Medical Virology , veterinary virology and viral zoonoses , insect virology and bacteriophages -Virologie (prokaryotes Virology). The ASV is a member of the International Union of Microbiological Societies .

President of the ASV

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang K. Joklik and Sidney E. Grossberg: How the American Society for Virology that founded. Virology (2006) 344 (1): pp. 250-257, PMID 16364755
  2. ↑ a b 35TH ANNUAL MEETING, American Society for Virology, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM & ABSTRACTS ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 4.3 MB); accessed on August 27, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / asv2016.cpe.vt.edu
  3. ↑ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VIROLOGY PRESIDENTS. (PDF; 154 kB) Accessed April 1, 2018 .

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