Let's Meet the Virologists

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We talk with students, staff, postdocs and faculty working to understand viruses and how they affect you. Host: Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases

Larissa Thackray


    • Sep 15, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 22m AVG DURATION
    • 117 EPISODES


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    LMtV Episode 117: Searching for new antiviral compounds derived from botanical sources

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 13:55


    We talk with David James, a Naturopathic Medicine student at Sonoran University in Tempe, AZ, who investigates the antiviral efficacy of botanical compounds.

    LMtV Episode 116: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Katherine Calderon Mayo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 10:47


    We talk with Katherine Calderon Mayo, a graduate student at the National University of San Marcos in Peru, who develops virus vectored vaccines against avian diseases.

    LMtV Episode 115: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Karen Pomeyie

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 10:51


    We talk with Karen Pomeyie, a master's student at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, who studies HIV.

    LMtV Episode 114: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Gifty Mawuli Sarpong

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 9:26


    We talk with Gifty Mawuli Sarpong, a principal research assistant at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana, who studies influenza virus epidemiology and surveillance.

    LMtV Episode 113: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Cybele Garcia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 23:43


    We talk with Dr. Cybele Garcia, virology group leader and professor at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina., who studies molecular mechanisms that can serve as novel therapeutic targets for arboviruses.    

    LMtV Episode 112: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Rakesh Rahangdale

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 12:38


    We talk with Rakesh Rahangdale, a graduate student at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, who studies novel protein biotherapeutics for neurotropic viruses such as herpes simplex virus.

    LMtV Episode 111: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Tatiana Murillo Corrales

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 15:19


    We talk with Dr. Tatiana Murillo Corrales, a virologist from the University of Costa Rica, who studies the epidemiology and emergence of arboviruses such as Dengue and Zika viruses in Costa Rica.

    LMtV Episode 110: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Tosin Afowowe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 14:31


    We talk with Dr. Tosin Afowowe, a Senior Veterinary Officer and Virologist at the Nigeria Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who performs genomic surveillance and antiviral drug development for arenaviruses such as lassavirus.

    LMtV Episode 109: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Shreya Banerjee

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 12:28


    We talk with Shreya Banerjee, a research fellow in the Division of Virology at ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in India, who studies rotavirus-host interactions to develop new antiviral therapies.

    LMtV Episode 108: The joy of working with your hands!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2023 11:18


    We talk with May Wang, a graduate student in the Rasmussen lab at North Carolina State University, who studies the fitness dynamics of plant viruses.

    LMtV Episode 107: Birds and bird flu don't respect borders!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2023 14:38


    We talk with Dr. Pedro Jiménez, an Assistant Professor in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who's lab focuses the ecology of avian influenza in Chile and South America.

    LMtV Episode 106: It can't rain forever - just keep going!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2023 12:21


    We talk with Tyshawn Ferrell, a graduate student in the Neufeldt and Piantadosi labs at Emory University, who studies how previous exposure alters dengue virus evolution.

    LMtV Episode 105: Extreme viruses in extreme environments!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2023 15:39


    We talk with Jono Abshier, a graduate student in the Stedman lab at Portland State University, who studies viruses that infect archaea that live in volcanic hotsprings.

    LMtV Episode 104: A diversity of hantaviruses and host receptors

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2023 16:23


    We talk with Dr. Rohit Jangra, an assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, who's lab focuses on identifying novel host receptors for hantaviruses.

    LMtV Episode 103: Phylodynamics of plant viruses

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 15:06


    We talk with Dr. Paul Rivarez, a postdoctoral researcher in the Rasmussen lab at North Carolina State University, who uses genomic epidemiology to define risks that determine the spread of plant viruses.

    LMtV Episode 102: Family can be inspiring too!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 12:25


    We talk with Oluwatola Femi-Olatunji, a master's student in the Hilliard lab at Georgia State University, who is studying the mechanism of action of novel antiviral compound against Zika virus. 

    LMtV Episode 101: It's okay to make mistakes!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2023 17:01


    We talk with Andres Rivera Ruiz, a graduate student in the Wobus lab at the University of Michigan Medical School, who uses intestinal organoids to study astroviruses.

    LMtV Episode 100: Early exposure plants seeds!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2023 18:04


    We talk with Dr. Christine Marizzi, Director of Community Science in Harlem, who works with BioBus and New York City Virus Hunters to facilitate K-12 and college students to discover, explore, and pursue science.

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2023 17:46


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2023 15:55


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2023 8:45


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2023 20:28


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 20:37


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2023 15:00


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2023 39:21


    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. .

    LMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 41:57


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 24:42


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 19:17


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2022 20:51


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2022 26:03


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2022 24:28


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 26:00


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 21:48


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2022 19:27


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2022 20:30


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2022 20:38


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2022 20:38


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2022 15:49


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 23:40


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

    LMtV Episode 78: Let's Meet the Virologist Aurelien Chuard

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 22:44


    We talk with Dr. Aurelien Chuard, a postdoctoral researcher in the Altindis lab at Boston College, who studies insulin-like peptides encoded by large double-stranded DNA viruses in the Iridoviridae family.

    LMtV Episode 77: Let's Meet the Virologist Joanna Sztuba-Solinska

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 21:37


    We talk with Dr. Joanna Sztuba-Solinska, an assistant professor at Auburn University, who is studying structure, function, and regulation of viral RNAs.

    LMtV Episode 76: Let's Meet the Virologist John Dzimianski

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2022 25:35


    We talk with Dr. John Dzimianski, a postdoctoral associate in the Dubois lab at the University of California Santa Cruz, who uses structural biology to study epitopes on the hemagglutinin glycoprotein of diverse influenza viruses in order to predict vaccine efficacy.

    LMtV Episode 75: Let's Meet the Virologist Alberto Lopez-Munoz

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2022 27:16


    We talk with Alberto Lopez-Munoz, a a postdoctoral fellow in the Yewdell lab at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who studies immunomodulation by SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein.

    LMtV Episode 74: Let's Meet the Virologist Amy Davis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 23:11


    We talk with Amy Davis, a graduate student in the Schultz-Cherry lab at St Jude Children's Research Hospital, who studies astrovirus infection of the central nervous system.

    LMtV Episode 73: Let's Meet the Virologist Grant Butschek

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2022 25:24


    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.

    LMtV Episode 72: Let's Meet the Virologist Hannah Wallace

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2022 19:48


    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.

    LMtV Episode 71: Let's Meet the Virologist Jonathan Joyce

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 29:17


    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.

    LMtV Episode 70: Let's Meet the Virologist Ashish Srivastava

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 17:50


    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.

    LMtV Episode 69: Let's Meet the Virologist Aaron Embry

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 22:35


    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.

    LMtV Episode 68: Let's Meet the Virologist Sriram Kumar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 33:56


    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.

    LMtV Episode 67: Let's Meet the Virologist Arman Azad

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 19:47


    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.

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