In our 7th episode, PhD student Yasmin Parr and postdoc Connor Bamford chat with Professor Richard Hardy from Indiana University in the USA about his lab’s work on understanding virus infectivity, a fundamental property of viruses. Richard tells us about the surprising way arboviruses spread from insect to mammalian cells and how by understanding how this happens we may be able to make better and safer vaccines for viruses like chikungunya virus.
Image: alphavirus EM structure from http://pdbj.org/emnavi/emnavi_detail.php?id=emdb-5210
Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/…Me_Higher_1626 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
