Professor Ali- Virology Lab My journey with invisible creatures Viruses infect all forms of life including humans, plants, animals, fungi, insects, algae, archaea, bacteria, and even other viruses. My journey with viruses started during my Master of Science (Hons) in 1988. Since then, I played with these invisible creatures during my PhD (1994-1999) at the University of Adelaide, Australia, my first Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japan followed by a second Postdoctoral Fellowship in Australia, and finally my third Postdoctoral Fellowship in the USA. My work on viruses continued when I became a faculty member in 2007 at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since 1988-2007, I have mainly worked with viruses infecting plants. However, at the University of Tulsa, my interest extended to viruses that infect humans and animals, so I started to develop and offer two courses: "Introduction of Virology" and "Biology of Cancer", at the undergraduate and graduate levels, which covers mostly human and animals viruses like HIV, Hepatitis, Herpes, Smallpox, Influenza, and cancer-causing viruses. In 2017, when I earned a US Fulbright Scholar Award, I worked on Mycoviruses (viruses infecting fungi) at the University of Okayama, Japan for 8 months. For complete details about my Research interest and my Virology Lab, see my webpage below: http://akhtarvirologylab.utulsa.edu/aboutme.htm