Department of Virology

Staff:

Associate Professor

Takeshi Kobayashi, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Specially Appointed Associate Professor

Yuta Kanai, D.V.M., Ph.D

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Takahiro Kawagishi, Ph.D.

Technical Staff

Misa Onishi

Naoko Nagasawa

Research Student

Pannacha Pimfhun

Graduate Student

Ryotaro Noda

Subjects:

1. Studies on rotavirus.
2. Studies on oncolytic mammalian reovirus.
3. Studies on highly pathogenic reovirus.

Papers published in 2016

1. Reverse Genetics for Fusogenic Bat-Borne Orthoreovirus Associated with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Humans: Role of Outer Capsid Protein σC in Viral Replication and Pathogenesis.

   Takahiro Kawagishi, Yuta Kanai, Hideki Tani, Masayuki Shimojima, Masayuki Saijo, Yoshiharu Matsuura and Takeshi Kobayashi

   PLoS Pathog, 12 (2), e1005455, 2016.

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Department of Virology

Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University