Let’s Meet the Virologists

LMtV Episode 93: Deer - an abundant reservoir for SARS-CoV-2

We talk with Dillon McBride, a graduate student in the Bowmen lab at the Ohio State University, and Dr. Leonardo Caserta, a postdoctoral associate in the Diel lab at Cornell University, about their work on white-tailed deer as a reservoir for emerging and historical strains of SARS-CoV-2.
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LMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2

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.

LMtV Episode 91: Let’s Meet the Virologist Vishi Reddy

We talk with Dr. Vishwanatha (Vishi) Reddy, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Broadbent lab at the Pirbright Institute, who studies immunosuppressive avian viruses.

LMtV Episode 90: Let’s Meet the Virologist Madison Gray

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.

LMtV Episode 89: Let’s Meet the Virologist William Rodriguez

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.

LMtV Episode 88: Let’s Meet the Virologist Patrick Creisher

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.

LMtV Episode 87: Let’s Meet the Virologist Abdullah Algaissi

We 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.

LMtV Episode 86: Let’s Meet the Virologist Tamanash Battacharya

We 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.

LMtV Episode 85: Let’s Meet the Virologist Frank Charlton

We talk with Frank Charlton, a graduate student in the Barr lab at University of Leeds, who studies the biochemical cues need for Bunyavirus entry.

LMtV Episode 84: Let’s Meet the Virologist Izabela Rezende

We 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.

LMtV Episode 83: Let’s Meet the Virologist Maggie Bartlett

We 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.

LMtV Episode 82: Let’s Meet the Virologist Debarpan Dhar

We talk with Debarpan Dhar, a graduate student in the Miller lab at Iowa State University, who studies packaging and replication of mammalian orthoreoviruses.

LMtV Episode 81: Let’s Meet the Virologist Marlonni Maurastoni

We 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.

LMtV Episode 80: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah Murphy

We 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.

LMtV Episode 79: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joaquín Caceres

We talk with Dr. Joaquín Caceres, an Assistant Research Scientist at University of Georgia, who designs more effective live attenuated influenza vaccines.