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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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LMtV Episode 83: Let’s Meet the Virologist Maggie...

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2022/07/10

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.

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20:38

LMtV Episode 82: Let’s Meet the Virologist Debarpan Dhar

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2022/07/10

We talk with Debarpan Dhar, a graduate student in the Miller lab at Iowa State University, who studies packaging and replication of mammalian orthoreoviruses.

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20:38

LMtV Episode 81: Let’s Meet the Virologist Marlonni...

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2022/07/03

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.

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15:49

LMtV Episode 80: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah Murphy

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2022/07/03

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.

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23:40

LMtV Episode 79: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joaquín...

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2022/07/02

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

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22:44

LMtV Episode 78: Let’s Meet the Virologist Aurelien...

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2022/06/30

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.

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21:37

LMtV Episode 77: Let’s Meet the Virologist Joanna...

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2022/06/29

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

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25:35

LMtV Episode 76: Let’s Meet the Virologist John...

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2022/06/28

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.

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27:16

LMtV Episode 75: Let’s Meet the Virologist Alberto...

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2022/06/27

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.

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23:11

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

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2022/06/22

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.

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25:24

LMtV Episode 73: Let’s Meet the Virologist Grant...

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2022/06/22

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.

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19:48

LMtV Episode 72: Let’s Meet the Virologist Hannah...

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2022/06/18

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.

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29:17

LMtV Episode 71: Let’s Meet the Virologist Jonathan...

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2022/06/17

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.

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17:50

LMtV Episode 70: Let’s Meet the Virologist Ashish...

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2022/06/13

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.

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22:35

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

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2022/06/09

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.

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33:56

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

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2022/06/08

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.

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19:47

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

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2022/06/06

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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22:38

LMtV Episode 66: Let’s Meet the Virologist Isabel Lewis

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2022/06/03

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.

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21:14

LMtV Episode 65: Let’s Meet the Virologist Robert...

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2022/05/31

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.

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16:35

LMtV Episode 64: Let’s Meet the Virologist Eva Ogire

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2022/05/25

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.

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