Let’s Meet the Virologists
Meet the people behind today’s virology headlines. People just like you working to understand viruses and how they affect you. Host: Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases
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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
We 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.
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
We 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.
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
We 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.
Let's Meet the Virologist Larissa Thackray
Who are virologists and what do they do? Your host, Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., 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.