Professor John Aaskov
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
Mosquito-borne viruses, Vaccine, Diagnostics, Molecular epidemiology, Disease surveillance, Dengue, Ross River virus
Research field
Microbiology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Leeds)
- BSc(Hons) (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
- Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, U.K.
- Fellow of the Australian Society of Microbiology
- Australian Society of Microbiology
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Australian Society of Immunology
- Australian Society of Infectious Diseases
- Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Asia Pacific Society of Medical Virology
Teaching
Teaching areas
- Life Sciences
Publications
- Liu, W., Pickering, P., Duchene, S., Holmes, E. & Aaskov, J. (2016). Highly divergent dengue virus type 2 in traveler returning from Borneo to Australia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(12), 2146–2148. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/111825
- Aaskov, J., Buzacott, K., Thu, H., Lowry, K. & Holmes, E. (2006). Long-Term Transmission of Defective RNA Viruses in Humans And Aedes Mosquitoes. Science, 311(5758), 236–238. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/6820
- Tesh, R., Osterhaus, A., Fouchier, R., Durbin, A., Simmons, C., Holmes, E., Harris, E., Whitehead, S., Smith, D., Katzelnick, L., Fonville, J., Gromowski, G., Bustos Arriaga, J., Green, A., James, S., Lau, L., Montoya, M., Wang, C., VanBlargan, L., Russell, C., Thu, H., Pierson, T., Buchy, P., Aaskov, J., Munoz-Jordan, J., Vasilakis, N. & Gibbons, R. (2015). Dengue viruses cluster antigenically but not as discrete serotypes. Science, 349(6254), 1338–1343. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100740
- Li, D. & Aaskov, J. (2014). Sub-genomic RNA of defective interfering (D.I.) dengue viral particles is replicated in the same manner as full length genomes. Virology, 468 - 470, 248–255. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/82781
- Ke, R., Aaskov, J., Holmes, E. & Lloyd-Smith, J. (2013). Phylodynamic analysis of the emergence and epidemiological impact of transmissible defective dengue viruses. PLoS Pathogens, 9(2), 1–11. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60258
- Wressnigg, N., van der Velden, M., Portsmouth, D., Draxler, W., O'Rourke, M., Richmond, P., Hall, S., McBride, W., Redfern, A., Aaskov, J., Barrett, P. & Aichinger, G. (2015). An inactivated Ross River virus vaccine is well tolerated and immunogenic in an adult population in a randomized phase 3 trial. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 22(3), 267–273. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100588
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Medal of the Order of Australia for contributions in the field of communicable diseases
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Honorary International Fellow, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus Reference and Research
- Type
- Membership of a Statutory Committee
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Member of the international roster of experts to advise the World Health Organisation in the event of an international health emergency
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Development of Novel Vaccines for the Concurrent Immunisation against Multiple Dengue Virus Serotypes (2006)
- Identification of Epitopes on the Dengue Virus Type 4 Envelope Glycoprotein Involved in Neutralisation by Antibodies (2006)
- Virus Recognition in Electron Microscope Images Using Higher Order Spectral Features (2006)
- Virus Diversity and the Emergence of Dengue (2005)