Let’s Meet the Virologists

Larissa Thackray
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Meet the people behind today’s virology headlines. People just like you working to understand viruses and how they affect you. Host: Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases

  1. 07/18/2025

    LMtV Episode 123: Animal models to study new vaccines and treatments for flavivirus

    We talk with Chinonye Dim, a graduate student at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, who characterizes more accessible animal models to develop new vaccines and therapeutics against flaviviruses.

    15 min

  2. 07/17/2025

    LMtV Episode 122: Investigating the role of metabolism in virus infection

    We talk with Hatoon Baazim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, who studies the role of systemic and cellular metabolism in virus infection.

    19 min

  3. 07/17/2025

    LMtV Episode 121: Using gnotobiotic pigs to study enteric virus vaccines

    We talk with with Charlotte Nyblade, a DVM/PhD student at the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Blacksburg, VA, who used gnotobiotic pig models to study vaccine-mediated immunity and protection against enteric viruses.

    17 min

  4. 07/15/2025

    LMtV Episode 120: Developing computational methods to predict virus evolution

    We talk with Stephanie Goya , a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, who uses genomic approaches to understand and predict the evolution of respiratory viruses such as RSV.

    17 min

  5. 07/14/2025

    LMtV Episode 119: Investigating behavioral outcomes of subclinical HSV infections

    We talk with Roberto Alers-Velazquez, a postdoc at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, who studies how subclinical herpes simplex virus infections can impair memory and behavior.

    23 min

  6. 07/14/2025

    LMtV Episode 118: Developing novel inhibitors to combat emerging alphaviruses

    We talk with Abdullahi Jamiu, a graduate student at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA, who studies how encephalitic alphaviruses modulate cellular transcription and antiviral responses to discover novel therapeutic targets.

    13 min

  7. 09/15/2024

    LMtV Episode 117: Searching for new antiviral compounds derived from botanical sources

    We talk with David James, a Naturopathic Medicine student at Sonoran University in Tempe, AZ, who investigates the antiviral efficacy of botanical compounds.

    14 min

  8. 07/02/2024

    LMtV Episode 116: Let's meet the ASV Global Scholar Katherine Calderon Mayo

    We talk with Katherine Calderon Mayo, a graduate student at the National University of San Marcos in Peru, who develops virus vectored vaccines against avian diseases.

    11 min
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Meet the people behind today’s virology headlines. People just like you working to understand viruses and how they affect you. Host: Larissa Thackray, Ph.D., Professor of Infectious Diseases

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  • Creator
    Larissa Thackray
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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