Dr. Abenaya Muralidharan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Pathology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center. She completed her PhD studies in Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2019), and she was nominated for the University of Ottawa Best PhD Thesis Award in 2019. In addition, she received the following honors: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship (2021–2024), University of Ottawa Conference Travel Grants (2019), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2016–2018), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Graduate Award (2015–2016), University of Ottawa Excellence Scholarship for Graduate students (2015–2019), and Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship (2009–2013). She is currently studying host-pathogen interactions during BSL3 SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro and in vivo.