Let’s Meet the Virologists

We talk with Dr. Ketaki Ganti, an Associate Research Scientist in the Lowen lab at Emory University School of Medicine, who studies influenza viruses.

We talk with Zoe Lyski, a graduate student in the Messer lab at Oregon Health and Sciences University, who studies dengue and chikungunya viruses, as well as SARS-CoV-2.

We talk with Tarun Martheswaran, an incoming undergraduate student at Stanford University, who studied dengue virus.

We talk with Dr. Elizabeth (Lizzy) Draganova, a postdoctoral scholar in the Heldwein lab at Tufts University School of Medicine, who studies herpes viruses.

We talk with Kathleen (Kathy) Glover, a graduate student in the Coombs lab at the University of Manitoba, who studies Zika virus.

We talk with Amit Koikkarah Aji, a graduate student in the Chiantia lab at the University of Potsdam, who studies hantaviruses.

We talk with Dr. Ling Qing Xu, a postdoctoral associate in the McElroy lab at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who studies SARS-CoV-2 and Rift Valley fever virus.

We talk with Jarin Mourosi, a graduate student in the Rao lab at The Catholic University of America, who studies bacteriophage T4.

We talk with Dr. Marli Vlok, a postdoctoral fellow in the Jan and Overall labs at the University of British Columbia, who studies picornaviruses and coronaviruses.

We talk with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger, a postdoctoral fellow in the Gewurz lab at Harvard Medical School, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.

We talk with Caroline Plescia, a graduate student in the Stahelin lab at Purdue University, who studies Ebola and SARS-CoV-2.

We talk with Michael Schwoerer, a graduate student in the Ploss lab at Princeton University, who studies flaviviruses.

We talk with Andrew (Drew) Marten, a masters student in the Conway lab at Central Michigan University, who studies dengue virus.

We talk with Brittany Stewart, a graduate student in the Orchard lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center, who studies norovirus.

We talk with Dr. Faten Okda, a postdoctoral fellow in the Webby lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, who studies influenza virus.

We talk with Dr. Dilip Kumar, a postdoctoral research associate in the Prasad lab at Baylor School of Medicine, who studies rotavirus.

We talk with Ana Tognasoli, a graduate student in the Adamson lab at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, who studies Epstein-Barr virus.

We talk with Zeinab Elmasri, a graduate student in the Jose lab at The Pennsylvania State University, who studies alphaviruses as well as flaviviruses and coronaviruses.

We talk with Carlos Brito, a graduate student in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who studies flaviviruses, alphaviruses and coronaviruses.

We talk with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, FASN, an assistant professor and clinical epidemiologist, about his work examining the substantial and systemic disease associated with 'long COVID'.

We talk with Dr. Sonam Verma, a postdoctoral researcher, about her work examining the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the placenta and the potential for increased risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes with COVID-19.

We talk with Dr. Ali Ellebedy, an associate professor of Pathology and Immunology, about work in his lab to examine immune responses in draining lymph nodes of the arm pit following vaccination with mRNA-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccines using human volunteer-derived samples obtained through ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration.

We talk with Dr. Sebastien Felt, a postdoctoral researcher, about his work to identify virus and host factors that regulate the generation of defective viral genomes (DVGs) of respiratory syncytial virus, a virus that causes significant respiratory disease in children.

We talk with Dr. Jeannie Kelly, an assistant professor, about her work examining the COVID-19 infection rate of pregnant women in Labor and Delivery, the high risk of pregnancy for severe COVID-19 disease, and the benefit of COVID-19 vaccination for both mothers and babies in utero and after birth.

We talk with Dr. Matthew Kelly, an Assistant Professor, about his work examining the role of the respiratory microbiome in the susceptibility of kids to COVID-19.