Dr. Edward Rybicki is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biopharming Research Unit of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research interests focus around vaccinology, protein expression, marine viromics, and virus diversity. He has authored two books, co-authored over 120 articles and 19 reviews in peer-reviewed journals, about 20 book chapters, and a number of popular or opinion articles and conference reports. Dr. Rybicki is listed as an inventor on 17 patent families, with around 44 country patents published. He writes educational and study material for the Web like the Electronic Introduction to Molecular Virology as well as via the UCT Open Educational Resources page like the Manual of Online Molecular Biology Techniques, which is extensively used by researchers outside of UCT. He maintains a university-level Virology teaching resource called ViroBlogy, as well as a general public information site called Virology News, runs the International Society for Plant Molecular Farming site, co-curates an information page on aquatic viruses and another on virology and bioinformatics, and tweets on virology topics (and other things) under [...]

Preface 1. What are viruses, and how were they discovered? 2. Viruses and their particles 3. Virus origins and genetics 4. Virus genomes and their replication 5. Expression of virus genomes 6. Infection and immunity 7. Viral pathogenesis 8. Panics and pandemics 9. Subviral agents: Deltaviruses and prions Appendix 1 Index