Dr. Anne Simon, Ph.D. was the science advisor of the American

United States

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 TV series The X-Files

The X-Files

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. She has written a book about this subject, The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites and Mutants (ISBN 0-684-85618-2).

Her primary research is on virus replication and symptom expression using the model virus, Turnip crinkle virus

Turnip crinkle virus

Turnip crinkle virus is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Tombusviridae.TCV is a small , icosohedral, single stranded, positive sense RNA virus . It has been shown to infect various types of plant species including the common plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, and is currently being studied...

. She is a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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in the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Simon also heads the Virology Program at UMd, and is a senior editor of Journal of Virology.

External links

• Anne Simon's Turnip Crinkle Virus Laboratory