Education

Ph.D. in Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, University of Oviedo, Spain, 1990

Current position

Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo, Toledo, USA

Publications (since 2005)

1. Novella, I. S., Presloid, J. B., Beech, C. and Wilke, C. O. (2013). Congruent evolution of fitness and genetic robustness in vesicular stomatitis virus. J Virol 87(9): 4923-4928.
   
2. Smith-Tsurkan, S. D., Herr, R. A., Khuder, S., Wilke, C. O. and Novella, I. S. (2013). The role of environmental factors on the evolution of phenotypic diversity in vesicular stomatitis virus populations. J Gen Virol 94(Pt 4): 860-868.
   
3. Smith-Tsurkan, S. D., Wilke, C. O. and Novella, I. S. (2010). Incongruent fitness landscapes, not tradeoffs, dominate the adaptation of vesicular stomatitis virus to novel host types. J Gen Virol 91(Pt 6): 1484-1493.
   
4. Novella, I. S., Presloid, J. B., Zhou, T., Smith-Tsurkan, S. D., Ebendick-Corpus, B. E., Dutta, R. N., Lust, K. L. and Wilke, C. O. (2010). Genomic evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus strains with differences in adaptability. J Virol 84(10): 4960-4968.
   
5. Novella, I. S., Dutta, R. N. and Wilke, C. O. (2008). A linear relationship between fitness and the logarithm of the critical bottleneck size in vesicular stomatitis virus populations. J Virol 82(24): 12589-12590.
   
6. Presloid, J. B., Ebendick-Corpus, B. E., Zarate, S. and Novella, I. S. (2008). Antagonistic pleiotropy involving promoter sequences in a virus. J Mol Biol 382(2): 342-352.
   
7. Dutta, R. N., Rouzine, I. M., Smith, S. D., Wilke, C. O. and Novella, I. S. (2008). Rapid adaptive amplification of preexisting variation in an RNA virus. J Virol 82(9): 4354-4362.
   
8. Novella, I. S., Ebendick-Corpus, B. E., Zarate, S. and Miller, E. L. (2007). Emergence of mammalian cell-adapted vesicular stomatitis virus from persistent infections of insect vector cells. J Virol 81(12): 6664-6668.
   
9. Novella, I. S., Gilbertson, D. L., Borrego, B., Domingo, E. and Holland, J. J. (2005). Adaptability costs in immune escape variants of vesicular stomatitis virus. Virus Res 107(1): 27-34.