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Overview

Gregor Meyers is affiliated with the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within the biological sciences, focusing particularly on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine.

Their primary subfields of study include Agronomy and Crop Science, Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Plant Science, and Animal Science and Zoology. Meyers has contributed to a variety of scientific topics, notably Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Immunology Research, Plant Virus Research Studies, Animal Virus Infections Studies, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, as well as Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

The scientist has published research in several journals and scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Viruses
  • Journal of Virology
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Gregor Meyers' recent papers illustrate a focus on pestiviruses, viral infections, and immunological responses. Selected recent publications include:

  • Generation and first characterization of TRDC-knockout pigs lacking γδ T cells (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • A double deletion prevents replication of the pestivirus bovine viral diarrhea virus in the placenta of pregnant heifers (2021, PLoS Pathogens)
  • Characterization of Membrane Topology and Retention Signal of Pestiviral Glycoprotein E1 (2021, Journal of Virology)
  • Downstream Sequences Control the Processing of the Pestivirus E rns -E1 Precursor (2020, Journal of Virology)
  • The Erns Carboxyterminus: Much More Than a Membrane Anchor (2021, Viruses)

Their collaborative work is reflected in frequent co-authorships with researchers such as Birke Andrea Tews, Robert Kammerer, Björn Petersen, Antje Frenzel, and Petra Hassel. These collaborations often involve interdisciplinary studies within their main fields of research.

Best Publications

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Flaviviridae.

    Peter Simmonds;Paul Becher;Jens Bukh;Ernest A. Gould

  • Molecular Characterization of Pestiviruses

    Gregor Meyers;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of the genome of hog cholera virus.

    Gregor Meyers;Tillmann Rümenapf;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Hog cholera virus: molecular composition of virions from a pestivirus.

    Heinz-Jürgen Thiel;R. Stark;Emilie Weiland;T. Rümenapf

  • Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus--molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing of a calicivirus genome.

    Gregor Meyers;Christoph Wirblich;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Pestivirus glycoprotein which induces neutralizing antibodies forms part of a disulfide-linked heterodimer.

    E Weiland;R Stark;B Haas;T Rümenapf

  • Identification and characterization of the virus causing rabbit hemorrhagic disease.

    V F Ohlinger;B Haas;G Meyers;F Weiland

  • Proposed revision to the taxonomy of the genus Pestivirus, family Flaviviridae.

    Donald B. Smith;Donald B. Smith;Gregor Meyers;Jens Bukh;Ernest A. Gould

  • The Molecular Biology of Pestiviruses.

    Norbert Tautz;Birke Andrea Tews;Gregor Meyers

  • Genomic and subgenomic RNAs of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus are both protein-linked and packaged into particles

    Gregor Meyers;Christoph Wirblich;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Characterization of an Autonomous Subgenomic Pestivirus RNA Replicon

    Sven-Erik Behrens;Claus W. Grassmann;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel;Gregor Meyers

  • Viral cytopathogenicity correlated with integration of ubiquitin-coding sequences.

    Gregor Meyers;Norbert Tautz;Edward J. Dubovi;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Recovery of cytopathogenic and noncytopathogenic bovine viral diarrhea viruses from cDNA constructs.

    G Meyers;N Tautz;P Becher;H J Thiel

  • Processing of pestivirus polyprotein: cleavage site between autoprotease and nucleocapsid protein of classical swine fever virus.

    R. Stark;Gregor Meyers;T. Rümenapf;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Structural proteins of hog cholera virus expressed by vaccinia virus: further characterization and induction of protective immunity.

    T. Rümenapf;R. Stark;Gregor Meyers;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Genetic map of the calicivirus rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus as deduced from in vitro translation studies.

    C Wirblich;H J Thiel;G Meyers

  • Classical swine fever virus: recovery of infectious viruses from cDNA constructs and generation of recombinant cytopathogenic defective interfering particles.

    G Meyers;H J Thiel;T Rümenapf

  • Mutations Abrogating the RNase Activity in Glycoprotein Erns of the Pestivirus Classical Swine Fever Virus Lead to Virus Attenuation

    Gregor Meyers;Armin Saalmüller;Mathias Büttner

  • Proposed update to the taxonomy of the genera Hepacivirus and Pegivirus within the Flaviviridae family.

    Donald B. Smith;Paul Becher;Jens Bukh;Ernest A. Gould

  • Ubiquitin in a togavirus

    Gregor Meyers;Tillmann Rümenapf;Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

  • Characterization of an autonomous subgenomic pestivirus RNA replicón. J Virol

    S. E. Behrens;C. W. Grassmann;H. J. Thiel;G. Meyers

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinz-Jürgen Thiel
Heinz-Jürgen Thiel University of Giessen
Edward J. Dubovi
Edward J. Dubovi Cornell University
Paul Becher
Paul Becher University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Jack T. Stapleton
Jack T. Stapleton University of Iowa
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Thomas P. Monath
Thomas P. Monath Crozet BioPharma
Jens Bukh
Jens Bukh University of Copenhagen
Ernest A. Gould
Ernest A. Gould Aix-Marseille University
Karl-Klaus Conzelmann
Karl-Klaus Conzelmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bryan Charleston
Bryan Charleston The Pirbright Institute

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