Let’s Meet the Virologists

We talk with Nora Herzog, a graduate student in the Holt and Mohr/Wilson Labs at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who studies how infection with Herpes simplex virus 1 alters the biophysical properties of the nucleus.

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We talk with Taylor Engdahl, a graduate student in the Crowe lab at Vanderbilt University, who studies the human antibody response to emerging viruses.

We talk with Dipanwita (Dipa) Mitra, a graduate student in the Tandon lab at the the University of Mississippi Medical Center, who studies the role of glycosaminoglycans in SARS-CoV-2 and cytomegalovirus entry, as well as peptide-based therapeutics for human cytomegalovirus infection.

We talk with Dr. Lisa Bauer, a postdoctoral researcher in the Van Riel lab at the Erasmus University Medical Center, who uses pluripotent stem cells differentiated into neurons and astrocytes to study how Influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2 affect the brain.

We talk with Judith Reyes Ballista, a graduate student in the Brindley lab at the University of Georgia, who studies the role of phosphatidylserine in the budding of Vesicular stomatitis virus.

We talk with Dr. Baldeep Khare, a postdoctoral research associate in the Kuhn lab at Purdue University, who uses cryo-electron microscopy to study an emerging flavivirus called Usutu virus.

We talk with Haley Caldwell, a graduate student in the Ciota lab at the Wadsworth Center and the University of Albany, who studies how viral swarms or quasi-species impact the inter- and intra-host fitness of West Nile virus.

We talk with Dr. Adithya Sridhar, a senior scientist in the Wolthers and Pajkrt labs at Amsterdam University Medical Center, who uses gut, airway and brain organoids to study picornaviruses.

We talk with Dr. Caroline Martin, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kielian lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who studies virus-host interactions that mediate alphavirus assembly and egress.

We talk with Ellen Suder, a graduate student in the Muhlberger lab at Boston University School of Medicine, who studies the virus-specific roles of Marburg and Ebola virus proteins in replication and transcription, and helped perform an antiviral drug testing for SARS-CoV-2.