Jan Vinje, PhD Center for Desease Control and Prevention

Dr. Jan Vinjé is the Head of the National Calicivirus Laboratory and Director of CaliciNet at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After obtaining bachelor of science degrees in biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, Dr. Vinjé received his Ph.D. at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in 1999. As a postdoc at the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, he led a molecular and diagnostic virology work package of the EU consortium on foodborne viruses (QLK1-1999-00594). In September 2000, he moved to UNC Chapel Hill for a post-doctoral training followed by a research assistant professor position at the same university with a focus on detection and environmental transmission of enteric viruses in food and water. Over the past 10 years, he has served on several program advisory committees from several European research projects (FP6, FP7). He is serving as technical expert on the norovirus subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods and is a member of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses study groups on Caliciviridae and Astroviridae. Dr. Vinjé co-leads the molecular core of USDA-NIFA Food Virology Collaborative (NoroCore) and he is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and associate editor of the Journal Food and Environmental Virology and he serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous journals. Dr. Vinjé has published over 100 peer reviewed publications and several book chapters and he is a guest lecturer at Emory and the University of Georgia. His research interests include all aspects of viral gastrointestinal disease including detection, characterization, and prevention and control of norovirus infections.