Let’s Meet the Virologists

LMtV Episode 123: Animal models to study new vaccines and treatments for flavivirus

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:11:26 -0500

We talk with Chinonye Dim, a graduate student at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, who characterizes more accessible animal models to develop new vaccines and therapeutics against flaviviruses.

LMtV Episode 122: Investigating the role of metabolism in virus infection

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:47:30 -0500

We talk with Hatoon Baazim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, who studies the role of systemic and cellular metabolism in virus infection.

LMtV Episode 121: Using gnotobiotic pigs to study enteric virus vaccines

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:16:54 -0500

We talk with with Charlotte Nyblade, a DVM/PhD student at the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, who used gnotobiotic pig models to study vaccine-mediated immunity and protection against enteric viruses.

LMtV Episode 120: Developing computational methods to predict virus evolution

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:35:05 -0500

We talk with Stephanie Goya , a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, who uses genomic approaches to understand and predict the evolution of respiratory viruses such as RSV.

LMtV Episode 119: Investigating behavioral outcomes of subclinical HSV infections

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:09:04 -0500

We talk with Roberto Alers-Velazquez, a postdoc at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, who studies how subclinical herpes simplex virus infections can impair memory and behavior.

LMtV Episode 118: Developing novel inhibitors to combat emerging alphaviruses

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:41:32 -0500

We talk with Abdullahi Jamiu, a graduate student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA, who studies how encephalitic alphaviruses modulate cellular transcription and antiviral responses to discover novel therapeutic targets.

LMtV Episode 117: Searching for new antiviral compounds derived from botanical sources

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:59:52 -0500

We talk with David James, a Naturopathic Medicine student at Sonoran University in Tempe, AZ, who investigates the antiviral efficacy of botanical compounds.

LMtV Episode 116: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Katherine Calderon Mayo

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 10:54:33 -0500

We talk with Katherine Calderon Mayo, a graduate student at the National University of San Marcos in Peru, who develops virus vectored vaccines against avian diseases.

LMtV Episode 115: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Karen Pomeyie

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:47:11 -0500

We talk with Karen Pomeyie, a master's student at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, who studies HIV.

LMtV Episode 114: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Gifty Mawuli Sarpong

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:53:24 -0500

We talk with Gifty Mawuli Sarpong, a principal research assistant at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana, who studies influenza virus epidemiology and surveillance.

LMtV Episode 113: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Cybele Garcia

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 11:22:00 -0500

We talk with Dr. Cybele Garcia, virology group leader and professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina., who studies molecular mechanisms that can serve as novel therapeutic targets for arboviruses.

LMtV Episode 112: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Rakesh Rahangdale

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:28:27 -0500

We talk with Rakesh Rahangdale, a graduate student at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, who studies novel protein biotherapeutics for neurotropic viruses such as herpes simplex virus.

LMtV Episode 111: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Tatiana Murillo Corrales

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:57:40 -0500

We talk with Dr. Tatiana Murillo Corrales, a virologist from the University of Costa Rica, who studies the epidemiology and emergence of arboviruses such as Dengue and Zika viruses in Costa Rica.

LMtV Episode 110: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Tosin Afowowe

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:19:00 -0500

We talk with Dr. Tosin Afowowe, a Senior Veterinary Officer and Virologist at the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who performs genomic surveillance and antiviral drug development for arenaviruses such as lassavirus.

LMtV Episode 109: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Shreya Banerjee

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:16:08 -0500

We talk with Shreya Banerjee, a research fellow in the Division of Virology at ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in India, who studies rotavirus-host interactions to develop new antiviral therapies.

LMtV Episode 108: The joy of working with your hands!

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:03:33 -0500

We talk with May Wang, a graduate student in the Rasmussen lab at North Carolina State University, who studies the fitness dynamics of plant viruses.

LMtV Episode 107: Birds and bird flu don’t respect borders!

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:14:02 -0500

We talk with Dr. Pedro Jiménez, an Assistant Professor in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who's lab focuses the ecology of avian influenza in Chile and South America.

LMtV Episode 106: It can’t rain forever - just keep going!

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:17:04 -0500

We talk with Tyshawn Ferrell, a graduate student in the Neufeldt and Piantadosi labs at Emory University, who studies how previous exposure alters dengue virus evolution.

LMtV Episode 105: Extreme viruses in extreme environments!

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:42:42 -0500

We talk with Jono Abshier, a graduate student in the Stedman lab at Portland State University, who studies viruses that infect archaea that live in volcanic hotsprings.

LMtV Episode 104: A diversity of hantaviruses and host receptors

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:05:22 -0500

We talk with Dr. Rohit Jangra, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, who's lab focuses on identifying novel host receptors for hantaviruses.

LMtV Episode 103: Phylodynamics of plant viruses

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 17:08:06 -0500

We talk with Dr. Paul Rivarez, a postdoctoral researcher in the Rasmussen lab at North Carolina State University, who uses genomic epidemiology to define risks that determine the spread of plant viruses.

LMtV Episode 102: Family can be inspiring too!

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:17:05 -0500

We talk with Oluwatola Femi-Olatunji, a master's student in the Hilliard lab at Georgia State University, who is studying the mechanism of action of novel antiviral compound against Zika virus.

LMtV Episode 101: It’s okay to make mistakes!

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:53:24 -0500

We talk with Andres Rivera Ruiz, a graduate student in the Wobus lab at the University of Michigan Medical School, who uses intestinal organoids to study astroviruses.

LMtV Episode 100: Early exposure plants seeds!

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:27:09 -0500

We talk with Dr. Christine Marizzi, Director of Community Science in Harlem, who works with BioBus and New York City Virus Hunters to facilitate K-12 and college students to discover, explore, and pursue science.

LMtV Episode 99: Resurgent phage - the old is now new!

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:16:35 -0500

We talk with Dr. Danielle Campbell, a postdoctoral scholar in the Baldridge lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who uses RNA viruses to understand RNA biology.

LMtV Episode 98: Maths genius not required!

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:47:50 -0500

We talk with Dr. Inna Ricardo Lax, a postdoctoral scholar in the Rice lab at The Rockefeller University, who uses RNA viruses to understand RNA biology.

LMtV Episode 97: The importance of mentorship!

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 14:17:52 -0500

We talk with Isabella Asamoah, a research assistant at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana, who is determining the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in Ghana.

LMtV Episode 96: Don’t get discouraged, your best is yet to come!

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 16:33:54 -0500

We talk with Dr. Dustin Glasner, a postdoctoral scholar in the Daugherty lab at University of California San Diego, who studies the interactions between viruses and the innate immune system.

LMtV Episode 95: Not just in the ocean!

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:54:04 -0500

We talk with Austin Robertson, a graduate student in the LeBeau lab at University of Wisconsin - Madison, who uses phage display libraries of shark antibodies to develop new antiviral therapeutics.

LMtV Episode 94: Don’t be afraid to leap!

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 16:00:57 -0500

We talk with Dr. Laura St Clair, a postdoctoral scholar in the Klein lab at John Hopkins University, who studies how the intersection between metabolism, biological sex, and immunology drive differences in the host response to vaccination and virus infection.

LMtV Episode 93: Deer - an abundant reservoir for SARS-CoV-2

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 22:30:51 -0500

We talk with Dillon McBride, a graduate student in the Bowmen lab at the Ohio State University, and Dr. Leonardo Caserta, a postdoctoral associate in the Diel lab at Cornell University, about their work on white-tailed deer as a reservoir for emerging and historical strains of SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:56:05 -0500

We talk with Dr. Marc Johnson, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, and Mitchell (Mitch) Ramuta, a graduate student in the O'Connor laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the potential applications of their work using wastewater and air surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses.

LMtV Episode 91: Let’s Meet the Virologist Vishi Reddy

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 14:23:01 -0500

We talk with Dr. Vishwanatha (Vishi) Reddy, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Broadbent lab at the Pirbright Institute, who studies immunosuppressive avian viruses.

LMtV Episode 90: Let’s Meet the Virologist Madison Gray

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:32:52 -0500

We talk with Madison Gray, a first-year graduate student at the University of Texas Medical Branch, who is using bioinformatics and AI to discover new therapeutics for pathogenic viruses.

LMtV Episode 89: Let’s Meet the Virologist William Rodriguez

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 12:50:58 -0500

We talk with William Rodriguez, a graduate student in the Muller lab at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, who studies host transcripts that escape RNA decay mediated by herpes virus infection.

LMtV Episode 88: Let’s Meet the Virologist Patrick Creisher

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:41:50 -0500

We talk with Patrick Creisher, a graduate student in the Klein lab at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who studies the outcome of respiratory virus infection during pregnancy.

LMtV Episode 87: Let’s Meet the Virologist Abdullah Algaissi

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:25:19 -0500

We talk with Dr. Abdullah Algaissi, an assistant professor of virology at the Medical Research Center at Jazan University, who studies emerging coronaviruses such as MERS and SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 86: Let’s Meet the Virologist Tamanash Battacharya

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:49:21 -0500

We talk with Dr. Tamanash Battacharya, a postdoctoral fellow in the Malik lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who studies the viral evolution of arboviruses.

LMtV Episode 85: Let’s Meet the Virologist Frank Charlton

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:54:42 -0500

We talk with Frank Charlton, a graduate student in the Barr lab at University of Leeds, who studies the biochemical cues need for Bunyavirus entry.

LMtV Episode 84: Let’s Meet the Virologist Izabela Rezende

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:58:52 -0500

We talk with Dr. Izabela Rezende, a postdoctoral researcher in the LaBeaud lab at Stanford University School of Medicine, who studies risk factors associated with severe outcome following yellow fever virus infection.

LMtV Episode 83: Let’s Meet the Virologist Maggie Bartlett

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:35:54 -0500

We talk with Dr. Maggie Bartlett, a a postdoctoral fellow in the Griffin lab at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who is studying immune control of viruses and viral persistence.

LMtV Episode 82: Let’s Meet the Virologist Debarpan Dhar

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:30:41 -0500

We talk with Debarpan Dhar, a graduate student in the Miller lab at Iowa State University, who studies packaging and replication of mammalian orthoreoviruses.

LMtV Episode 81: Let’s Meet the Virologist Marlonni Maurastoni

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 13:48:24 -0500

We talk with Dr. Marlonni Maurastoni, a postdoctoral researcher in the Whitfield lab at North Carolina State University, who is working to understand transmission of plant viruses.

LMtV Episode 80: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah Murphy

Sun, 03 Jul 2022 11:43:00 -0500

We talk with Hannah Murphy, a graduate student in the Liang and Ly lab at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, who studies arenaviruses and SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 79: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joaquín Caceres

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 22:28:18 -0500

We talk with Dr. Joaquín Caceres, an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Georgia, who designs more effective live attenuated influenza vaccines.

LMtV Episode 78: Let’s Meet the Virologist Aurelien Chuard

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 22:34:05 -0500

We talk with Dr. Aurelien Chuard, a postdoctoral researcher in the Altindis lab at Boston College, who studies insulin-like peptides encoded by large double-stranded DNA viruses in the Iridoviridae family.

LMtV Episode 77: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joanna Sztuba-Solinska

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:34:05 -0500

We talk with Dr. Joanna Sztuba-Solinska, an assistant professor at Auburn University, who is studying structure, function, and regulation of viral RNAs.

LMtV Episode 76: Let’s Meet the Virologist John Dzimianski

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:17:09 -0500

We talk with Dr. John Dzimianski, a postdoctoral associate in the Dubois lab at the University of California Santa Cruz, who uses structural biology to study epitopes on the hemagglutinin glycoprotein of diverse influenza viruses in order to predict vaccine efficacy.

LMtV Episode 75: Let’s Meet the Virologist Alberto Lopez-Munoz

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 11:27:10 -0500

We talk with Alberto Lopez-Munoz, a a postdoctoral fellow in the Yewdell lab at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who studies immunomodulation by SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein.

LMtV Episode 74: Let’s Meet the Virologist Amy Davis

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:45:35 -0500

We talk with Amy Davis, a graduate student in the Schultz-Cherry lab at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, who studies astrovirus infection of the central nervous system.

LMtV Episode 73: Let’s Meet the Virologist Grant Butschek

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 20:14:12 -0500

We talk with Grant Butschek, a graduate student in the Pekosz lab at Johns Hopkins University, who is studying how temperature differences in the upper and lower respiratory tract alter virus infection.

LMtV Episode 72: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah Wallace

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 18:57:40 -0500

We talk with Hannah Wallace, a graduate student in the Russell lab at Memorial University in St John's, who is investigating how Hepatitis C virus induces pyroptosis.

LMtV Episode 71: Let’s Meet the Virologist Jonathan Joyce

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:07:46 -0500

We talk with Jonathan Joyce, a graduate student in the Bertke lab at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who is investigating how SARS-CoV-2 infects the nervous system.

LMtV Episode 70: Let’s Meet the Virologist Ashish Srivastava

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:00:13 -0500

We talk with Dr. Ashish Srivastava, a faculty member at Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology in India, who uses CRISPR-Cas detection and nanopore sequencing technologies to identify and characterize known and novel viruses that affect plant crops.

LMtV Episode 69: Let’s Meet the Virologist Aaron Embry

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:03:05 -0500

We talk with Aaron Embry, a graduate student in the Gammon and Alto labs at University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, who studies bacterial effector proteins that overcome barriers to arbovirus infection.

LMtV Episode 68: Let’s Meet the Virologist Sriram Kumar

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:03:02 -0500

We talk with Sriram Kumar, a graduate student in the Ludwig/Brunotte lab at the Institute of Virology, who investigates the virus specific therapeutic potential of different IFN alpha subtypes for influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 67: Let’s Meet the Virologist Arman Azad

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 14:17:44 -0500

We talk with Arman Azad, a medical student in the Simon lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who studied immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in patients with HIV.

LMtV Episode 66: Let’s Meet the Virologist Isabel Lewis

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:42:53 -0500

We talk with Isabel Lewis, a graduate student in the Beard lab at The Pirbright Institute, who studies virulence factors of Lumpy skin disease virus, a newly emerged poxvirus of cattle.

LMtV Episode 65: Let’s Meet the Virologist Robert Lopez-Astacio

Tue, 31 May 2022 16:42:46 -0500

We talk with Robert Lopez-Astacio, a graduate student in the Parrish lab at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, who uses canine parvovirus to study how antibody escape and receptor binding drive virus evolution and emergence of new virus variants.

LMtV Episode 64: Let’s Meet the Virologist Eva Ogire

Wed, 25 May 2022 13:02:56 -0500

We talk with Eva Ogire, a graduate student in PIMIT at the University of the Reunion on La Reunion Island and CIRI at the University of Lyon, France, who studies the role of the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) in the pathology of epidemic strains of Dengue virus.

LMtV Episode 63: Let’s Meet the Virologist Nora Herzog

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:30:23 -0500

We talk with Nora Herzog, a graduate student in the Holt and Mohr/Wilson Labs at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who studies how infection with Herpes simplex virus 1 alters the biophysical properties of the nucleus.

LMtV Episode 62: Let’s Meet the Virologist Taylor Engdahl

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:58:24 -0500

We talk with Taylor Engdahl, a graduate student in the Crowe lab at Vanderbilt University, who studies the human antibody response to emerging viruses.

LMtV Episode 61: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Dipanwita Mitra

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:34:08 -0500

We talk with Dipanwita (Dipa) Mitra, a graduate student in the Tandon lab at the the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who studies the role of glycosaminoglycans in SARS-CoV-2 and cytomegalovirus entry, as well as peptide-based therapeutics for human cytomegalovirus infection.

LMtV Episode 60: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Lisa Bauer

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:39:42 -0500

We talk with Dr. Lisa Bauer, a postdoctoral researcher in the Van Riel lab at the Erasmus University Medical Center, who uses pluripotent stem cells differentiated into neurons and astrocytes to study how Influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 affect the brain.

LMtV Episode 59: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Judith Reyes Ballista

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:50:05 -0500

We talk with Judith Reyes Ballista, a graduate student in the Brindley lab at the University of Georgia, who studies the role of phosphatidylserine in the budding of Vesicular stomatitis virus.

LMtV Episode 58: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Baldeep Khare

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:21:07 -0500

We talk with Dr. Baldeep Khare, a postdoctoral research associate in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study an emerging flavivirus called Usutu virus.

LMtV Episode 57: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Haley Caldwell

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:29:51 -0500

We talk with Haley Caldwell, a graduate student in the Ciota lab at the Wadsworth Center and the University of Albany, who studies how viral swarms or quasi-species impact the inter- and intra-host fitness of West Nile virus.

LMtV Episode 56: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Adithya Sridhar

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:47:25 -0500

We talk with Dr. Adithya Sridhar, a senior scientist in the Wolthers and Pajkrt labs at Amsterdam University Medical Center, who uses gut, airway and brain organoids to study picornaviruses.

LMtV Episode 55: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Caroline Martin

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 15:51:02 -0500

We talk with Dr. Caroline Martin, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kielian lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who studies virus-host interactions that mediate alphavirus assembly and egress.

LMtV Episode 54: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Ellen Suder

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:21:29 -0500

We talk with Ellen Suder, a graduate student in the Muhlberger lab at Boston University School of Medicine, who studies the virus-specific roles of Marburg and Ebola virus proteins in replication and transcription, and helped perform an antiviral drug testing for SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 53: Let's Meet the Virologist Nandita Kedia

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:25:08 -0500

We talk with Nandita Kedia, a graduate student in the Mondal lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, who studies host factors that modulate influenza B virus and helped develop a rapid point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test called COVIRAP.

LMtV Episode 52: Let's Meet the Virologist Simon Boudreault

Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:01:43 -0500

We talk with Simon Boudreault, a graduate student in the Bisaillon and Lemay labs at the Université de Sherbrooke, who studies reoviruses.

LMtV Episode 51: Let's Meet the Virologist Clayton Wollner

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 14:37:47 -0500

We talk with Clayton (Clay) Wollner, a graduate student in the Richner lab at the University of Ilinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who studies dengue virus.

LMtV Episode 50: Let's Meet the Virologist Ana Vazquez-Pagan

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:49:01 -0500

We talk with Ana Vazquez-Pagan, a graduate student in the Schultz-Cherry lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.

LMtV Episode 49: Let's Meet the Virologist Kristen Engevik

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:09:34 -0500

We talk with Dr. Kristen Engevik, a postdoctoral associate in the Hyser lab at Baylor College of Medicine, who studies rotaviruses.

LMtV Episode 48: Let's Meet the Virologist Ketaki Ganti

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:20:58 -0500

We talk with Dr. Ketaki Ganti, an Associate Research Scientist in the Lowen lab at Emory University School of Medicine, who studies influenza viruses.

LMtV Episode 47: Let's Meet the Virologist Zoe Lyski

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 10:54:06 -0500

We talk with Zoe Lyski, a graduate student in the Messer lab at Oregon Health and Sciences University, who studies dengue and chikungunya viruses, as well as SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 46: Let's Meet the Virologist Tarun Martheswaran

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:45:05 -0500

We talk with Tarun Martheswaran, an incoming undergraduate student at Stanford University, who studied dengue virus.

LMtV Episode 45: Let's Meet the Virologist Elizabeth Draganova

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:35:25 -0500

We talk with Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzy) Draganova, a postdoctoral scholar in the Heldwein lab at Tufts University School of Medicine, who studies herpes viruses.

LMtV Episode 44: Let's Meet the Virologist Kathleen Glover

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:30:09 -0500

We talk with Kathleen (Kathy) Glover, a graduate student in the Coombs lab at the University of Manitoba, who studies Zika virus.

LMtV Episode 43: Let's Meet the Virologist Amit Koikkarah Aji

Sun, 11 Jul 2021 21:11:55 -0500

We talk with Amit Koikkarah Aji, a graduate student in the Chiantia lab at the University of Potsdam, who studies hantaviruses.

LMtV Episode 42: Let's Meet the Virologist Ling Qing Xu

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 10:44:03 -0500

We talk with Dr. Ling Qing Xu, a postdoctoral associate in the McElroy lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who studies SARS-CoV-2 and Rift Valley fever virus.

LMtV Episode 41: Let's Meet the Virologist Jarin Mourosi

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:44:13 -0500

We talk with Jarin Mourosi, a graduate student in the Rao lab at The Catholic University of America, who studies bacteriophage T4.

LMtV Episode 40: Let's Meet the Virologist Marli Vlok

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:58:36 -0500

We talk with Dr. Marli Vlok, a postdoctoral fellow in the Jan and Overall labs at the University of British Columbia, who studies picornaviruses and coronaviruses.

LMtV Episode 39: Let's Meet the Virologist Laura Murray-Nerger

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 14:35:51 -0500

We talk with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gewurz lab at Harvard Medical School, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.

LMtV Episode 38: Let's Meet the Virologist Caroline Plescia

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:13:31 -0500

We talk with Caroline Plescia, a graduate student in the Stahelin lab at Purdue University, who studies Ebola and SARS-CoV-2.

LMtV Episode 37: Let's Meet the Virologist Michael Schwoerer

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:57:10 -0500

We talk with Michael Schwoerer, a graduate student in the Ploss lab at Princeton University, who studies flaviviruses.

LMtV Episode 36: Let's Meet the Virologist Andrew Marten

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 13:00:52 -0500

We talk with Andrew (Drew) Marten, a masters student in the Conway lab at Central Michigan University, who studies dengue virus.

LMtV Episode 35: Let's Meet the Virologist Brittany Stewart

Sun, 04 Jul 2021 12:56:05 -0500

We talk with Brittany Stewart, a graduate student in the Orchard lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who studies norovirus.

LMtVEpisode 34: Let's Meet the Virologist Faten Okda

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:27:57 -0500

We talk with Dr. Faten Okda, a postdoctoral fellow in the Webby lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.

LMtV Episode 33: Let's Meet the Virologist Dilip Kumar

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:47:04 -0500

We talk with Dr. Dilip Kumar, a postdoctoral research associate in the Prasad lab at Baylor School of Medicine, who studies rotavirus.

LMtV episode 32: Let's Meet the Virologist Ana Tognasoli

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:37:03 -0500

We talk with Ana Tognasoli, a graduate student in the Adamson lab at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.

LMtV Episode 31: Let's Meet the Virologist Zeinab Elmasri

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:49:59 -0500

We talk with Zeinab Elmasri, a graduate student in the Jose lab at The Pennsylvania State University, who studies alphaviruses as well as flaviviruses and coronaviruses.

LMtV Episode 30: Let's Meet the Virologist Carlos Brito

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:23:31 -0500

We talk with Carlos Brito, a graduate student in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who studies flaviviruses, alphaviruses and coronaviruses.

LMtV Episode 29: long COVID - over 30 manifestations of disease and counting

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 12:32:02 -0500

We talk with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, FASN, an assistant professor and clinical epidemiologist, about his work examining the substantial and systemic disease associated with 'long COVID'.

LMtV Episode 28: SARS-CoV-2 colonization of the placenta

Sun, 23 May 2021 16:11:53 -0500

We talk with Dr. Sonam Verma, a postdoctoral researcher, about her work examining the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the placenta and the potential for increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes with COVID-19.

LMtV Episode 27: 'Big and juicy' draining lymph nodes and immune responses following COVID vaccination

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:10:56 -0500

We talk with Dr. Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor of Pathology and Immunology, about work in his lab to examine immune responses in draining lymph nodes of the arm pit following vaccination with mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines using human volunteer-derived samples obtained through ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration.

LMtV Episode 26: DVGs - potent modulators of viral pathogenesis and potential antiviral therapies

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:04:19 -0500

We talk with Dr. Sebastien Felt, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work to identify virus and host factors that regulate the generation of defective viral genomes (DVGs) of respiratory syncytial virus, a virus that causes significant respiratory disease in children.

LMtV Episode 25: Pregnancy, labor and delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:35:44 -0500

We talk with Dr. Jeannie Kelly, an assistant professor, about her work examining the COVID-19 infection rate of pregnant women in Labor and Delivery, the high risk of pregnancy for severe COVID-19 disease, and the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination for both mothers and babies in utero and after birth.

LMtV Episode 24: BRAVE kids, the microbiome and COVID-19

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 18:45:01 -0500

We talk with Dr. Matthew Kelly, an Assistant Professor, about his work examining the role of the respiratory microbiome in the susceptibility of kids to COVID-19.