Virology Graduate
Training Program at the University of Maryland
Virology
is the study of viruses and their hosts. Virologists explore how viruses
enter cells, direct the cell’s machinery to transcribe, translate, and
replicate their genomes, and then exit the cell to establish new
infections. It is an exciting discipline that
encompasses the fields of
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Genetics.
Since Fall 2001, the Department
of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (CBMG) at the University
of Maryland College Park has offered a world-class
specialization in Virology funded in part by a 5 year NIH Training Grant. Virologists from several departments on
the Maryland campus and the University of Maryland
Biotechnology Institute (Center
for Biosystems Research) (located adjacent to CBMG) have joined with scientists from
the nearby National Institutes of Health
and the USDA Beltsville Agricultural
Research Center (BARC) to offer state-of-the-art training that
emphasizes the true breadth of Virology.
Unlike virology programs that concentrate on viruses that only infect
selected hosts, students have a unique opportunity to join a highly
interactive group of scientists working on viruses that infect a wide
array of animal, plant and fungal hosts. Interests of the faculty
range from the smallest of all pathogenic agents- viroids, satellites and
prions- to the largest of the viruses, the poxviruses.
(To
read more about the goals of the Virology Training Program, please select
this link.)
Information
for Virology Training Program Faculty
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