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Mini Beatty Lecture - Retrovirus evolution

Friday, January 25, 2008 14:00
Duff Medical Building 3775 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4, CA
John M. Coffin is American Cancer Society Professor and Distinguished Professor, Depts of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston. He also serves as advisor on HIV and AIDS to the National Cancer Institute and to the HIV Drug Resistance Program (DRP), which he founded in 1997. He is well known for his work on retrovirus genetics, genome structure and evolution, and is author of nearly 200 publications. Dr. Coffin has also been an editor or editor-in-chief of many international leading journals including "Science," "Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA" and the "Journal of Virology"; he is senior editor of "Retroviruses," the definitive text on the subject. In 1999, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences USA, in recognition of his contributions to the field of retrovirology. See the website (below) for an abstract of his lecture.
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