Dr. Elizabeth Pollom is from Indianapolis, Indiana. She began studying virology while obtaining her B.A. in Biochemistry from DePauw University. Working with ebolavirus throughout her undergraduate studies, she developed a strong interest in viruses, particularly viruses with ribonucleic acid (RNA) genomes. This interest was amplified as she worked with the RNA secondary structures of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses while earning her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University studying RNA structure and function of the poliovirus genome during viral replication. Her current research hopes to provide insight into the shape and structure of replication complexes of positive sense RNA viruses.
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