About ASV
The American Society for Virology Archive serves both to collect and preserve official legal and historical material directly relevant to the establishment and maintenance of the Society, and to store and make available to the public material of general historical interest in the discipline of virology.
Rotavirus triple-layered particles. Rotavirus virions are triple-layered particles with icosahedral symmetry. The spike protein and the glycoprotein VP7 compose the external layer. Meanwhile, a unique component, VP6, is part of the middle layer. The VP2 icosahedral internal layer or virus core encapsidates the eleven dsRNA genome segments. All twelve vertices of inner core contain VP1-VP3 complexes. The image represents high-definition transmission electron microscopy of rotavirus triple-layered particles purified from cell culture. After glutaraldehyde fixation, the particles were stained phosphotungstate. Acquired images were colored using Adobe Photoshop.
Courtesy of Catherine Eichwald, Institute of Virology, University of Zürich.
Officers and Councilors
CRAIG E. CAMERON, Ph.D.
President
The University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
6012 Marsico Hall, CB 7290,
125 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone: 919-966-9580 craig.cameron@med.unc.edu
FELICIA GOODRUM, Ph.D.
President-Elect
University of Arizona
Department of Immunobiology
1657 E. Helen St., BIO5 Institute
Thomas W. Keating Bldg, Rm 4
Tuscon, AZ 85721
Phone: 520-626-7468
fgoodrum@email.arizona.edu
KATHERINE R. SPINDLER, Ph.D.
Secretary-Treasurer
University of Michigan Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology
1150 West Medical Center Drive,
5635 Med Sci II
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5620
Phone: 734-615-2727
krspin@umich.edu
Councilors
Nominating Committee Chair (2020)
KRISTEN A. BERNARD – University of Wisconsin - Madison
kristen.bernard@wisc.edu
Councilor for Virology Trainees (2021)
Kaitlin A. Davis – University of Wisconsin - Madison
kdavis35@wisc.edu
Councilor for Plant Virology (2023)
SVETLANA FOLIMONOVA – University of Florida
svetlana@ufl.edu
Councilor for Invertebrate Virology (2021)
PAUL D. FRIESEN – University of Wisconsin
pfriesen@wisc.edu
Councilor for Animal Virology (2021)
FELICIA GOODRUM – University Arizona
fgoodrum@email.arizona.edu
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Councilor for Evolution and Ecology (2023)
ADAM LAURING – University of Michigan
alauring@med.umich.edu
Councilor for Medical Virology (2022)
ANNE MOSCONA – Columbia University Medical Center
am939@cumc.columbia.edu
Councilor for Prokaryotic Virology (2020)
KRISTIN PARENT – Michigan State University
kparent@msu.edu
Councilor for Veterinary/Zoonotic Virology (2022)
JOHN S. L. PARKER – Cornell University
johnslparker@cornell.edu
Councilor for Virology Trainees (2022)
Kishana Y. Taylor – University of California, Davis
kyvtaylor@ucdavis.edu
Founding of the American Society for Virology
The ASV was founded in 1981 under the leadership of Dr. Wolfgang K. Joklik following fifteen years of discussion by a small group of virologists. The first annual meeting of the ASV was held in 1982 at Cornell in Ithaca.
The founding of the ASV was officially documented in a 2006 publication in Virology, entitled How the American Society for Virology was Founded, by Wolfang K. Joklik and Sidney E. Grossberg. This article provides a first-hand summary of the founding and early history of the Society.
From his own files, Dr. Frederick Murphy has compiled documents relating to the founding of ASV including:
- The Virology article, “How the American Society for Virology was founded (cited above)
- An editorial in Archives of Virology describing the beginnings of the International Congresses of Virology
- Original documents from the founding of the ASV including correspondence and business meeting minutes
- The program from the first ASV meeting
General Interest
Official Archive
The official ASV archive has both a legal and a historical purpose. Legally, as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, the Society is required to keep all business meeting minutes and treasurer’s reports. These are maintained in the archive and updated on a regular basis. The archive also contains correspondence and records relating to the establishment of the Society, plus copies of the programs and abstracts for all of the annual meetings since the founding of the Society.
The official ASV archive is housed at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, California. It was established in 2004 by the then Secretary-Treasurer Dr. Sidney Grossberg. At the time of its creation, Dr. Grossberg provided the Bancroft library with documents dating from the creation of the Society in 1984 up to 2004. In 2009 Dr. Wolfgang Joklik, founder of the Society, provided materials from his personal files to the Archive. Dr. Sondra Schlessinger supplemented the archive with additional materials during her tenure as Chair of the Archives Committee. Anyone can view the archive by contacting the Bancroft library, and the History and Archives Committee is attempting to provide on-line access to some of the more interesting documents of historical interest.
For more information or to make contributions to the archive, contact Lorena Passarelli, Chair of the History and Archives Committee.
In Memoriam
Duke University Medical Center
OBITUARY
Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Purdue University
Professor, Molecular Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Science
