Isolating COVID-19 (Interview with Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University)

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, 1:45 a.m.

\U0001f7e6Welcome to SciSection! Joining us in today's interview is our special guest Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, a postdoctoral researcher at McMaster University who was a member of the team that isolated the novel coronavirus \U0001f97c! We'll be learning about his career as a virologist studying bats and coronaviruses, a journey that started six years before the COVID-19 outbreak; his involvement in isolating the novel coronavirus, as well as his current research moving forward and how he hopes to help prevent future pandemics \U0001f9ea.

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\U0001f7e8Journalist: Anna Yang

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