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
Podcast Description
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
Episodes

Jul 13, 2022
Jul 13, 2022
24 min
We talk with Dr. Vishwanatha (Vishi) Reddy, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Broadbent lab at the Pirbright Institute, who studies immunosuppressive avian viruses.

Jul 13, 2022
Jul 13, 2022
19 min
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.

Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022
20 min
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.

Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022
26 min
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.

Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
24 min
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.

Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
26 min
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.

Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
21 min
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.

Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
19 min
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.

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.






