Postdoctoral research associate Chithra Sreenivasan successfully isolated antigens in tracheal and lung tissues to prove that the guinea pig could be used as an animal model to study influenza D as part of her doctoral work.
Doctoral student Jieshi Yu prepares to do a plasmid extraction as part of work to examine how the influenza D binds to receptors on the cell membrane, which then fool the cell into engulfing the virus.