100 Years of Virology

- Beijerinck's contribution to the virus concept - an introduction (A. van Kammen) • The Prussian State and microbiological research - Friedrich Loeffler and his approach to the "invisible" virus (H. P. Schmiedebach) • The legacy of Friedrich Loeffler - The Institute on the Isle of Riems (W. Wittmann) • The post-Loeffler-Frosch era: contribution of German virologists (R. Rott) • Importance and impact of veterinary virology in Germany (M. C. Horzinek) • The evolution of viruses, the emergence of viral diseases: a synthesis that Martinus Beijerinck might enjoy (F. A. Murphy) • Life beyond eradication: veterinary viruses in basic science (L. W. Enquist) • Immune modulation by proteins secreted from cells infected by vaccinia virus (G. L. Smith, J. A. Symons, A. Alcamí) • Learning from our foes: a novel vaccine concept for influenza virus (P. Palese, T. Muster, H. Zheng, R. O'Neill, A. Garcia-Sastre) • Pathogenic aspects of measles virus infections (S. Schneider-Schaulies, V. ter Meulen) • The glycoproteins of Marburg and Ebola virus and their potential roles in pathogenesis (H. Feldmann, V. E. Volchkov, V. A. Volchkova, H

-D. Klenk) • Retroviruses: ancient and modern (R. A. Weiss, D. Griffiths, Y. Takeuchi, C. Patience, P. J. W. Venables) • Foot-and-mouth disease and beyond: vaccine design, past, present and future (F. Brown) • Viruses and gene silencing in plants (D. Baulcombe) • Viroids and the nature of viroid diseases (T. O. Diener)