"ER Membrane Tethering Facilitates Flavivirus Infection."

About Speaker: Dr. Neufeldt obtained his BSc in immunology and PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Alberta, working on how hepatitis C virus infection alters host nuclear transport pathways. Following his PhD, he moved to the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he continued his training in Molecular Virology in the laboratory of Ralf Bartenschlager. During this time, his research focused on characterizing flavivirus interactions with host membrane proteins. In 2021, Dr. Neufeldt joined the Emory faculty as an assistant professor in Microbiology and Immunology. Research in the Neufeldt lab uses integrated imaging techniques in combination with a range of molecular virology and cell biology tools to investigate how positive-strand RNA virus infection manipulates cellular membrane systems and to determine how genetic changes in the viral genome impact immune recognition.