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Let’s Meet the Virologists

Larissa Thackray

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

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15:06

LMtV Episode 103: Phylodynamics of plant viruses

Let’s Meet the Virologists ·

2023/06/21

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.

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12:25

LMtV Episode 102: Family can be inspiring too!

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2023/06/21

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.

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17:01

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

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2023/06/20

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.

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18:04

LMtV Episode 100: Early exposure plants seeds!

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2023/06/19

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.

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17:46

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

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2023/06/19

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.

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15:55

LMtV Episode 98: Maths genius not required!

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2023/06/17

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.

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08:45

LMtV Episode 97: The importance of mentorship!

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2023/06/17

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.

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20:28

LMtV Episode 96: Don’t get discouraged, your best is...

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2023/06/10

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.

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20:37

LMtV Episode 95: Not just in the ocean!

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2023/06/08

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.

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15:00

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

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2023/06/07

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.

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39:21

LMtV Episode 93: Deer - an abundant reservoir for...

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2023/06/05

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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41:57

LMtV Episode 92: Game changer? Environmental...

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2022/08/29

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.

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24:42

LMtV Episode 91: Let’s Meet the Virologist Vishi Reddy

Let’s Meet the Virologists ·

2022/07/13

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

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19:17

LMtV Episode 90: Let’s Meet the Virologist Madison Gray

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2022/07/13

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.

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20:51

LMtV Episode 89: Let’s Meet the Virologist William...

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2022/07/12

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.

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26:03

LMtV Episode 88: Let’s Meet the Virologist Patrick...

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2022/07/12

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.

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24:28

LMtV Episode 87: Let’s Meet the Virologist Abdullah...

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2022/07/12

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.

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26:00

LMtV Episode 86: Let’s Meet the Virologist Tamanash...

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2022/07/11

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.

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21:48

LMtV Episode 85: Let’s Meet the Virologist Frank...

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2022/07/11

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.

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19:27

LMtV Episode 84: Let’s Meet the Virologist Izabela...

Let’s Meet the Virologists ·

2022/07/11

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.

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