Let’s Meet the Virologists

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.