Episodes

Saturday Jun 24, 2023
LMtV Episode 108: The joy of working with your hands!
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
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.

Saturday Jun 24, 2023
LMtV Episode 107: Birds and bird flu don’t respect borders!
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
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.

Friday Jun 23, 2023
LMtV Episode 106: It can’t rain forever - just keep going!
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
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.

Thursday Jun 22, 2023
LMtV Episode 105: Extreme viruses in extreme environments!
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
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.

Thursday Jun 22, 2023
LMtV Episode 104: A diversity of hantaviruses and host receptors
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
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.

Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
LMtV Episode 103: Phylodynamics of plant viruses
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
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.

Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
LMtV Episode 102: Family can be inspiring too!
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
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.

Monday Jun 19, 2023
LMtV Episode 101: It’s okay to make mistakes!
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
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.

Monday Jun 19, 2023
LMtV Episode 100: Early exposure plants seeds!
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
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.

Sunday Jun 18, 2023
LMtV Episode 99: Resurgent phage - the old is now new!
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
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.

Saturday Jun 17, 2023
LMtV Episode 98: Maths genius not required!
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
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.

Saturday Jun 17, 2023
LMtV Episode 97: The importance of mentorship!
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
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.

Saturday Jun 10, 2023
LMtV Episode 96: Don’t get discouraged, your best is yet to come!
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
Saturday Jun 10, 2023
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.

Thursday Jun 08, 2023
LMtV Episode 95: Not just in the ocean!
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
Thursday Jun 08, 2023
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.

Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
LMtV Episode 94: Don’t be afraid to leap!
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
Wednesday Jun 07, 2023
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.

Let's Meet the Virologist Larissa Thackray
Who are virologists and what do they do? Your host, Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, talks with people who study virology to highlight the diversity of people doing virus research and to discover what inspires them!
Dr. Thackray's own research focuses on developing and utilizing animal models to figure out how interactions between the microbiome and the host determine the outcome of virus infection, as well as to develop antiviral therapeutics and vaccines against emerging viruses. She has studied coronaviruses, flaviviruses, alphaviruses, noroviruses and astroviruses.