Let’s Meet the Virologists

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.