Let’s Meet the Virologists

We talk with Grant Butschek, a graduate student in the Pekosz lab at Johns Hopkins University, who is studying how temperature differences in the upper and lower respiratory tract alter virus infection.

We talk with Hannah Wallace, a graduate student in the Russell lab at Memorial University in St John's, who is investigating how Hepatitis C virus induces pyroptosis.

We talk with Jonathan Joyce, a graduate student in the Bertke lab at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, who is investigating how SARS-CoV-2 infects the nervous system.

We talk with Dr. Ashish Srivastava, a faculty member at Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology in India, who uses CRISPR-Cas detection and nanopore sequencing technologies to identify and characterize known and novel viruses that affect plant crops.

We talk with Aaron Embry, a graduate student in the Gammon and Alto labs at University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, who studies bacterial effector proteins that overcome barriers to arbovirus infection.

We talk with Sriram Kumar, a graduate student in the Ludwig/Brunotte lab at the Institute of Virology, who investigates the virus specific therapeutic potential of different IFN alpha subtypes for influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2.

We talk with Arman Azad, a medical student in the Simon lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who studied immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination in patients with HIV.

We talk with Isabel Lewis, a graduate student in the Beard lab at The Pirbright Institute, who studies virulence factors of Lumpy skin disease virus, a newly emerged poxvirus of cattle.

We talk with Robert Lopez-Astacio, a graduate student in the Parrish lab at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, who uses canine parvovirus to study how antibody escape and receptor binding drive virus evolution and emergence of new virus variants.

We talk with Eva Ogire, a graduate student in PIMIT at the University of the Reunion on La Reunion Island and CIRI at the University of Lyon, France, who studies the role of the non-structural protein 1 (NS1) in the pathology of epidemic strains of Dengue virus.

We talk with Nora Herzog, a graduate student in the Holt and Mohr/Wilson Labs at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who studies how infection with Herpes simplex virus 1 alters the biophysical properties of the nucleus. .

We talk with Taylor Engdahl, a graduate student in the Crowe lab at Vanderbilt University, who studies the human antibody response to emerging viruses.

We talk with Dipanwita (Dipa) Mitra, a graduate student in the Tandon lab at the the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who studies the role of glycosaminoglycans in SARS-CoV-2 and cytomegalovirus entry, as well as peptide-based therapeutics for human cytomegalovirus infection.  

We talk with Dr. Lisa Bauer, a postdoctoral researcher in the Van Riel lab at the Erasmus University Medical Center, who uses pluripotent stem cells differentiated into neurons and astrocytes to study how Influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 affect the brain.

We talk with Judith Reyes Ballista, a graduate student in the Brindley lab at the University of Georgia, who studies the role of phosphatidylserine in the budding of Vesicular stomatitis virus.

We talk with Dr. Baldeep Khare, a postdoctoral research associate in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study an emerging flavivirus called Usutu virus.

We talk with Haley Caldwell, a graduate student in the Ciota lab at the Wadsworth Center and the University of Albany, who studies how viral swarms or quasi-species impact the inter- and intra-host fitness of West Nile virus.

We talk with Dr. Adithya Sridhar, a senior scientist in the Wolthers and Pajkrt labs at Amsterdam University Medical Center, who uses gut, airway and brain organoids to study picornaviruses.

We talk with Dr. Caroline Martin, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kielian lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who studies virus-host interactions that mediate alphavirus assembly and egress.

We talk with Ellen Suder, a graduate student in the Muhlberger lab at Boston University School of Medicine, who studies the virus-specific roles of Marburg and Ebola virus proteins in replication and transcription, and helped perform an antiviral drug testing for SARS-CoV-2.

We talk with Nandita Kedia, a graduate student in the Mondal lab at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, who studies host factors that modulate influenza B virus and helped develop a rapid point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test called COVIRAP.

We talk with Simon Boudreault, a graduate student in the Bisaillon and Lemay labs at the Université de Sherbrooke, who studies reoviruses.

We talk with Clayton (Clay) Wollner, a graduate student in the Richner lab at the University of Ilinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who studies dengue virus.

We talk with Ana Vazquez-Pagan, a graduate student in the Schultz-Cherry lab at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.

We talk with Dr. Kristen Engevik, a postdoctoral associate in the Hyser lab at Baylor College of Medicine, who studies rotaviruses.