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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.