IMPACT FACTOR 5.048 an Open Access Journal by MDPI Homage to Jan Svoboda: Recent Advances in Topics Pioneered by his Prague School Guest Editors: Message from the Guest Editors Dr. Jiri Hejnar Dear Colleagues, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jan Svoboda, a pioneer of retrovirology, brilliant scientist Prague, Czech Republic and good friend passed away on March 13 this year. He was
[email protected] a living legend in the fields of retrovirology, tumor viruses, and oncogenes. The scientific community will remember Dr. Tomas Ruml University of Chemistry and Svoboda not only for his seminal work. Numerous students Technology Prague, Department and peers will surely remember him also for his of Biochemistry and mentorship, life-long contacts, and influence. This Special Microbiology, Prague, Czech Issue intends to commemorate Jan’s scientific legacy and Republic point out the recent progress in the topics that he
[email protected] established and pursued during his long and fruitful life in science. We also hope to assemble contributions from people who were influenced by Jan, either as his students Deadline for manuscript or collaborators, and who now work on different topics of submissions: virology, oncology, immunology, and cell biology. We closed (31 October 2018) accept research articles, reviews, and, potentially, brief communications analysing Jan Svoboda’s contribution to the basic concepts in virology. Jiri Hejnar Tomas Ruml Guest Editor mdpi.com/si/9293 SpeciaIslsue IMPACT FACTOR 5.048 an Open Access Journal by MDPI Editor-in-Chief Message from the Editor-in-Chief Dr. Eric O. Freed Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915) is an open access journal which Director, HIV Dynamics and provides an advanced forum for studies of viruses.