James Van Etten
Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
Nebraska Center for Virology University of Nebraska-Lincoln
United States of America
Biography
James Van Etten done his BA, Biology from Carleton College, Minnesota, MS, Plant Pathology from University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, PhD, Plant Pathology from University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Postdoc, Molecular Biology from University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Research Interest
James Van Etten research in the Van Etten laboratory focuses on the isolation and characterization of large icosahedral, dsDNA-containing, plaque-forming viruses that infect certain unicellular, eukaryotic chlorella-like green algae. These viruses are ubiquitous in fresh water from all over the world. The chlorella viruses have genomes as large as 370 kb that contain as many as 400 protein encoding- and 16 tRNA encoding-genes.
