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Let’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 108: The joy of working with your hands!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.
2023-06-2511 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 107: Birds and bird flu don’t respect borders!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.
2023-06-2514 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 106: It can’t rain forever - just keep going!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.
2023-06-2312 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 105: Extreme viruses in extreme environments!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.
2023-06-2315 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 104: A diversity of hantaviruses and host receptorsWe 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.
2023-06-2316 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 103: Phylodynamics of plant virusesWe 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.
2023-06-2215 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 102: Family can be inspiring too!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.
2023-06-2112 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 101: It’s okay to make mistakes!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.
2023-06-2017 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2We 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.
2022-08-2941 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 91: Let’s Meet the Virologist Vishi ReddyWe talk with Dr. Vishwanatha (Vishi) Reddy, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Broadbent lab at the Pirbright Institute, who studies immunosuppressive avian viruses.
2022-07-1324 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 90: Let’s Meet the Virologist Madison GrayWe 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.
2022-07-1319 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 89: Let’s Meet the Virologist William RodriguezWe 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.
2022-07-1220 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 88: Let’s Meet the Virologist Patrick CreisherWe 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.
2022-07-1226 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 87: Let’s Meet the Virologist Abdullah AlgaissiWe 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.
2022-07-1224 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 86: Let’s Meet the Virologist Tamanash BattacharyaWe 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.
2022-07-1126 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 85: Let’s Meet the Virologist Frank CharltonWe talk with Frank Charlton, a graduate student in the Barr lab at University of Leeds, who studies the biochemical cues need for Bunyavirus entry.
2022-07-1121 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 84: Let’s Meet the Virologist Izabela RezendeWe 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.
2022-07-1119 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 83: Let’s Meet the Virologist Maggie BartlettWe 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.
2022-07-1020 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 82: Let’s Meet the Virologist Debarpan DharWe talk with Debarpan Dhar, a graduate student in the Miller lab at Iowa State University, who studies packaging and replication of mammalian orthoreoviruses.
2022-07-1020 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 81: Let’s Meet the Virologist Marlonni MaurastoniWe 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.
2022-07-0320 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 80: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah MurphyWe 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.
2022-07-0315 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 79: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joaquín CaceresWe talk with Dr. Joaquín Caceres, an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Georgia, who designs more effective live attenuated influenza vaccines.
2022-07-0223 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 78: Let’s Meet the Virologist Aurelien ChuardWe 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.
2022-06-3022 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 77: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joanna Sztuba-SolinskaWe talk with Dr. Joanna Sztuba-Solinska, an assistant professor at Auburn University, who is studying structure, function, and regulation of viral RNAs.
2022-06-2921 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 76: Let’s Meet the Virologist John DzimianskiWe 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.
2022-06-2825 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 75: Let’s Meet the Virologist Alberto Lopez-MunozWe 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.
2022-06-2727 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 74: Let’s Meet the Virologist Amy DavisWe 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.
2022-06-2323 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 73: Let’s Meet the Virologist Grant ButschekWe 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.
2022-06-2225 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 72: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah WallaceWe 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.
2022-06-1919 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 71: Let’s Meet the Virologist Jonathan JoyceWe 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.
2022-06-1829 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 70: Let’s Meet the Virologist Ashish SrivastavaWe 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.
2022-06-1417 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 69: Let’s Meet the Virologist Aaron EmbryWe 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.
2022-06-0922 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 68: Let’s Meet the Virologist Sriram KumarWe 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.
2022-06-0833 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 67: Let’s Meet the Virologist Arman AzadWe 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.
2022-06-0619 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 66: Let’s Meet the Virologist Isabel LewisWe 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.
2022-06-0322 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 65: Let’s Meet the Virologist Robert Lopez-AstacioWe 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.
2022-05-3121 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 64: Let’s Meet the Virologist Eva OgireWe 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.
2022-05-2516 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 63: Let’s Meet the Virologist Nora HerzogWe 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.
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2022-02-2735 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 62: Let’s Meet the Virologist Taylor EngdahlWe talk with Taylor Engdahl, a graduate student in the Crowe lab at Vanderbilt University, who studies the human antibody response to emerging viruses.
2022-02-1533 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 61: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Dipanwita MitraWe 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.
2021-12-0128 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 60: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Lisa BauerWe 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.
2021-11-0830 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 59: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Judith Reyes BallistaWe 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.
2021-10-1928 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 58: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Baldeep KhareWe 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.
2021-10-1726 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 57: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Haley CaldwellWe 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.
2021-10-0432 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 56: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Adithya SridharWe 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.
2021-09-2028 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 55: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Caroline MartinWe 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.
2021-09-1523 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 54: Let‘s Meet the Virologist Ellen SuderWe 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.
2021-09-0931 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 53: Let's Meet the Virologist Nandita KediaWe 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.
2021-08-2522 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 52: Let's Meet the Virologist Simon BoudreaultWe talk with Simon Boudreault, a graduate student in the Bisaillon and Lemay labs at the Université de Sherbrooke, who studies reoviruses.
2021-07-1816 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 51: Let's Meet the Virologist Clayton WollnerWe 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.
2021-07-1715 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 50: Let's Meet the Virologist Ana Vazquez-PaganWe talk with Ana Vazquez-Pagan, a graduate student in the Schultz-Cherry lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.
2021-07-1713 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 49: Let's Meet the Virologist Kristen EngevikWe talk with Dr. Kristen Engevik, a postdoctoral associate in the Hyser lab at Baylor College of Medicine, who studies rotaviruses.
2021-07-1713 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 48: Let's Meet the Virologist Ketaki GantiWe talk with Dr. Ketaki Ganti, an Associate Research Scientist in the Lowen lab at Emory University School of Medicine, who studies influenza viruses.
2021-07-1621 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 47: Let's Meet the Virologist Zoe LyskiWe 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.
2021-07-1522 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 46: Let's Meet the Virologist Tarun MartheswaranWe talk with Tarun Martheswaran, an incoming undergraduate student at Stanford University, who studied dengue virus.
2021-07-1415 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 45: Let's Meet the Virologist Elizabeth DraganovaWe talk with Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzy) Draganova, a postdoctoral scholar in the Heldwein lab at Tufts University School of Medicine, who studies herpes viruses.
2021-07-1418 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 44: Let's Meet the Virologist Kathleen GloverWe talk with Kathleen (Kathy) Glover, a graduate student in the Coombs lab at the University of Manitoba, who studies Zika virus.
2021-07-1320 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 43: Let's Meet the Virologist Amit Koikkarah AjiWe talk with Amit Koikkarah Aji, a graduate student in the Chiantia lab at the University of Potsdam, who studies hantaviruses.
2021-07-1216 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 42: Let's Meet the Virologist Ling Qing XuWe 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.
2021-07-1022 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 41: Let's Meet the Virologist Jarin MourosiWe talk with Jarin Mourosi, a graduate student in the Rao lab at The Catholic University of America, who studies bacteriophage T4.
2021-07-0816 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 40: Let's Meet the Virologist Marli VlokWe 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.
2021-07-0820 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 39: Let's Meet the Virologist Laura Murray-NergerWe talk with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gewurz lab at Harvard Medical School, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.
2021-07-0721 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 38: Let's Meet the Virologist Caroline PlesciaWe talk with Caroline Plescia, a graduate student in the Stahelin lab at Purdue University, who studies Ebola and SARS-CoV-2.
2021-07-0712 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 37: Let's Meet the Virologist Michael SchwoererWe talk with Michael Schwoerer, a graduate student in the Ploss lab at Princeton University, who studies flaviviruses.
2021-07-0523 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 36: Let's Meet the Virologist Andrew MartenWe talk with Andrew (Drew) Marten, a masters student in the Conway lab at Central Michigan University, who studies dengue virus.
2021-07-0415 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 35: Let's Meet the Virologist Brittany StewartWe talk with Brittany Stewart, a graduate student in the Orchard lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who studies norovirus.
2021-07-0416 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtVEpisode 34: Let's Meet the Virologist Faten OkdaWe talk with Dr. Faten Okda, a postdoctoral fellow in the Webby lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.
2021-07-0227 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 33: Let's Meet the Virologist Dilip KumarWe talk with Dr. Dilip Kumar, a postdoctoral research associate in the Prasad lab at Baylor School of Medicine, who studies rotavirus.
2021-07-0113 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV episode 32: Let's Meet the Virologist Ana TognasoliWe talk with Ana Tognasoli, a graduate student in the Adamson lab at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.
2021-06-3020 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 31: Let's Meet the Virologist Zeinab ElmasriWe 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.
2021-06-2816 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 30: Let's Meet the Virologist Carlos BritoWe talk with Carlos Brito, a graduate student in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who studies flaviviruses, alphaviruses and coronaviruses.
2021-06-2818 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 29: long COVID - over 30 manifestations of disease and countingWe 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'.
2021-06-2741 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 28: SARS-CoV-2 colonization of the placentaWe 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.
2021-05-2329 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 27: 'Big and juicy' draining lymph nodes and immune responses following COVID vaccinationWe 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.
2021-04-2943 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 26: DVGs - potent modulators of viral pathogenesis and potential antiviral therapiesWe 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.
2021-04-2339 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 25: Pregnancy, labor and delivery during the COVID-19 pandemicWe 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.
2021-04-1238 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 24: BRAVE kids, the microbiome and COVID-19We 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.
2021-04-0941 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 23: I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work!We talk with Dr. Hinissan Pascaline Kohio, a postdoctoral research associate in the Ding lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis about her work studying rotavirus, an enteric pathogen in young children.
2021-03-2731 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 22: Cardiovascular disease following SARS-CoV-2 infectionWe talk with Dr. Adam Bailey, a clinical pathology fellow, and Sasha Dmytrenko, an MSTP student, about their work investigating extra-pulmonary effects of COVID-19, specifically on the heart.
2021-03-0543 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 21: Harnessing viruses to target cancerWe talk with Dr. Sharmila Nair, a staff scientist, about her work investigating how Zika virus might be used to target a fatal human cancer, Glioblastoma multiforme.
2021-02-1528 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 20: Searching for new therapeutics and addressing vaccine hesitancy to combat COVID-19We talk with Dr. Tristan Jordan, a postdoctoral scholar, about his work using a CRISPR screen and proteomics of the viral replication complex to identity potential drug targets for SARS-CoV-2.
2021-02-0433 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 19: warp speed - light at the end of the tunnel!We talk with Dr. Rachel Presti, an associate professor, about her work with clinical trials to examine how well different drugs, therapies, and vaccines work to prevent and treat COVID-19.
2020-12-1830 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 18: hang in there - the end is in sight!We talk with Dr. Brett Case, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work identifying and characterizing numerous monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
2020-12-1826 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 17: the interplay between viruses and the immune responseWe talk with Dr. Sigrid Gouma, a postdoctoral researcher, who has been examining antibody responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection to determine the impact of COVID-19 on specific populations such as pregnant women and to prevent transmission from those with asymptomatic infection.
2020-12-1024 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 16: a balancing actWe talk with Dr. Ben Israelow, an infectious diseases fellow, about his work using small animal models and human patient samples to determine why some patients recover from COVID-19 while others do not.
2020-11-1832 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 15: harnessing the immune response to develop therapiesWe talk with Dr. Laura VanBlargen, a staff scientist, about her work to develop and characterize new monoclonal antibody-based therapies for SARS-CoV-2.
2020-11-1320 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 14: from bench to bedsideWe talk with Dr. David Martinez, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work evaluating therapies and vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.
2020-11-0728 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 13: think of othersWe talk with Traci Bricker, a research laboratory supervisor, about her work with a hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 to find novel therapeutics to prevent and treat COVID-19.
2020-11-0620 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 12: patience is a virtueWe talk with Christian Shema Mugisha, a graduate student, about his work developing a rapid, cost-effective way to assay SARS-CoV-2 to further COVID-19 research.
2020-10-1822 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 11: hard work and a little bit of luckWe talk with Dr. Sarah Leist, a postdoctoral researcher, about her work generating a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2 which will be vital to understand host determinants of SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis.
2020-10-1824 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 10: you can make a differenceWe talk with Dr. Yi-Chieh (EJ) Perng, a postdoctoral scholar, about his research to discover new antiviral drugs for SARS-CoV-2 and his outreach efforts discussing how to protect yourself and your community during the COVID-19 pandemic by wearing a mask.
2020-10-0429 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 9: the importance of being preparedWe talk with Dr. Seth Zost, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work to identify monoclonal antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 which are currently in clinical trials evaluating their ability to prevent or treat COVID-19.
2020-09-3037 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 8: love and pizza in the time of COVID-19We talk with Dr. Zhuoming Liu, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work using chimeric VSV to identify potential therapeutics monoclonal antibodies and drugs that prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.
2020-09-2322 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 7: do the right thingWe talk with Dr. Ahmed Hassan, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work developing a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
2020-09-0725 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 6: what connects us is scienceWe talk with Dr. Shibali Das, a postdoctoral researcher, about her studies to identify specific immune cells associated with protection and severity of COVID-19 disease.
2020-09-0324 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 5: no need to be perfectWe talk with Dr. Anne Mayer Bridwell, an instructor, about her work developing cell-based screens to discover new antiviral drugs for SARS-CoV-2.
2020-08-2421 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 4: from plant viruses to coronavirusesWe talk with Dr. Sebla Kutluay about work in her lab to understand how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with its human host.
2020-08-1920 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 3: science is not personalWe talk with Emma Winkler, a student training to be a medical scientist, who has characterized several models of SARS-CoV-2 infection to better understand why some people get really sick with COVID-19.
2020-08-1819 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 2: 40 years of coronavirus researchWe talk with Dr. Susan Weiss who has studied coronavirus replication and pathogenesis for over forty years and hopes that this knowledge will lead to new therapies for SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging coronaviruses.
2020-08-0926 minLet’s Meet the VirologistsLMtV Episode 1: coronaviruses - canny, sneaky and dangerousWe talk with one of the pioneers of the coronavirus research field, Dr. Kathryn 'Kay' Holmes, who keeps up with the rapidly moving research on SARS-CoV-2 as a hobby and uses her knowledge of coronaviruses to help keep her community safe.
2020-08-0932 min