Kenneth Berns
American virologist
Kenneth Ira Berns is an American virologist who is currently a distinguished professor emeritus at the department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine . [1] He is primarily known for his work on adeno-associated viruses (AAV), and his group was one of the first which showed the specificity of the integration of the AAV genomes into the cellular genome. [2] He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1995. [3]
He was the president of the American Society for Virology (ASV) for the academic year 1988–1989 [4] and the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for the academic year 1996–1997. He was elected in 2000 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . [5]
References
- ↑ "Berns, Kenneth" . mgm.ufl.edu .
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Kotin RM, Siniscalco M, Samulski RJ, Zhu XD, Hunter L, Laughlin CA; et
al. (1990).
"Site-specific integration by adeno-associated virus"
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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87
(6): 2211–5.
Bibcode
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1990PNAS...87.2211K
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doi
:
10.1073/pnas.87.6.2211
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PMC
53656
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PMID
2156265
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link ) - ↑ "Kenneth Berns" . www.nasonline.org .
- ↑ "Presidents of The American Society for Virology" . American Society for Virology .
- ↑ "Historic Fellows" . American Association for the Advancement of Science .
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