Amith Punyala
Program: Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Current advisor: Rotating in the lab of Sean P. J. Whelan, PhD
Undergraduate university: Cornell University
Research summary
This past summer, I worked in the lab of Dr. Sean Whelan, where I probed the host factors necessary for the entry and infection of Bourbon virus, a single-stranded negative-sense RNA virus that causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans.
Graduate publications