Let’s Meet the Virologists

LMtV Episode 99: Resurgent phage - the old is now new!

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.

LMtV Episode 98: Maths genius not required!

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.

LMtV Episode 97: The importance of mentorship!

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.

LMtV Episode 96: Don’t get discouraged, your best is yet to come!

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.

LMtV Episode 95: Not just in the ocean!

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.

LMtV Episode 94: Don’t be afraid to leap!

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.

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.