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

  1. ↑ "Berns, Kenneth". mgm.ufl.edu.
  2. ↑ Kotin RM, Siniscalco M, Samulski RJ, Zhu XD, Hunter L, Laughlin CA; et al. (1990). "Site-specific integration by adeno-associated virus". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 87 (6): 2211–5. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.2211K. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.6.2211. PMC 53656. PMID 2156265.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "Kenneth Berns". www.nasonline.org.
  4. ↑ "Presidents of The American Society for Virology". American Society for Virology.
  5. ↑ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.


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