David Prangishvili

David Prangishvili (born 1948) is a virologist, Professor at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and foremost authority on viruses infecting Archaea.

David Prangishvili received a prize of Council of Ministers of the USSR for Excellence in Science and Technology in 1979.

[4][5] The results of his research provide new perspectives concerning the diversity and evolution of viruses and virus-host interactions.

Häring M., Rachel R, Peng X, Garrett RA, and Prangishvili D (2005) “Diverse viruses in hot springs of Pozzuoli, Italy, including a unique bottle-shaped archaeal virus ABV from a new family, the Ampullaviridae”.

Häring M, Vestergaard G, Rachel R, Chen L, Garrett RA and Prangishvili D (2005) “Independent virus development outside a host”.

Mochizuki T, Yoshida T, Tanaka R, Forterre P, Sakob Y, and Prangishvili D (2010) “Diversity of viruses of the hyperthermophilic archaeal genus Aeropyrum, and isolation of the Aeropyrum pernix bacilliform virus 1, APBV1, the first representative of the family Clavaviridae”.

Häring M, Peng X, Brügger K, Rachel R, Stetter KO, Garrett RA, and Prangishvili D (2004) “Morphology and genome organization of the virus PSV of the hyperthermophilic archaeal genera Pyrobaculum and Thermoproteus: a novel virus family, the Globuloviridae”.

"Archaeal virus with exceptional virion architecture and the largest single-stranded DNA genome".

Bettstetter M, Peng, X, Garrett RA, and Prangishvili D (2003) “AFV1, a novel virus infecting hyperthermophilic archaea of the genus Acidianus”.

13 Prangishvili D (2015) “Archaeal viruses: living fossils of the ancient virosphere?” Ann NY Acad Sci 1341: 35-40.

Prangishvili D, Bamford DH, Forterre P, Iranzo J., Koonon EV, and Krupovic M (2017) “The enigmatic archaeal virosphere”.