Dr. Melody M. H. Li is an Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA. Dr. Melody, a native of Hong Kong, received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2011. As an undergrad, she trained with Dr. Bert Semler and ventured into the fascinating world of host-virus interactions. Melody then studied with Dr. Michael Emerman, where she elucidated the functional consequences of human polymorphisms in the antiviral APOBEC3H gene. Melody subsequently completed her postdoctoral work with Dr. Peggy MacDonald and Dr. Charlie Rice at Rockefeller University, where she focused on the antiviral mechanisms and regulation of the host interferon response targeting alphaviruses and flaviviruses. She started her own lab at UCLA in fall 2017 to continue studying the mechanism of ZAP/PARP13, a broad-spectrum antiviral ISG, and other members of the poly-ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) family.