Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Guest: Erica Ollmann Saphire

Vincent and Alan speak with Erica about her career and her work on understanding the functions of proteins of Ebolaviruses, Marburg virus, and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, at ASM Microbe 2016 in Boston, MA.

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• Structure of antibodies bound to Ebola virus glycoprotein (PNAS)
• Structure of cross-reactive filovirus antibody (Cell)
• Multiple functions of Ebola virus VP40 protein (Cell)
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