Episodes

Monday Aug 29, 2022
LMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
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.

Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
LMtV Episode 91: Let’s Meet the Virologist Vishi Reddy
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
We talk with Dr. Vishwanatha (Vishi) Reddy, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Broadbent lab at the Pirbright Institute, who studies immunosuppressive avian viruses.

Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
LMtV Episode 90: Let’s Meet the Virologist Madison Gray
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
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.

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
LMtV Episode 89: Let’s Meet the Virologist William Rodriguez
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
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.

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
LMtV Episode 88: Let’s Meet the Virologist Patrick Creisher
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
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.

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.