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Office: Chemistry & Biochemistry Bldg.
Specialty: Emerging respiratory viruses
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Professional Preparation

  • Assistant Research Professor, 2021
    Chemical & Biological Engineering, MSU
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, 2017
    Microbiology and Immunology, MSU, CBE
  • Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology, 2014
    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    NSF Graduate Fellowship
    Dissertation: Regulating the regulators: Emerging roles of cellular microRNAs in influenza A virus infection
  • B.S., Biochemistry, 2008  
    Suffolk University, Boston, MA
    Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Research Focus

Emma's research focuses on emerging respiratory viruses. Her recent research projects include developing methods for studying influenza A virus and picornaviruses at the single-cell level using drop-based microfluidics. Since 2020, she has focused her virology expertise on studying SARS-CoV-2 in MSU’s BSL3 laboratory.

Notable Publications

E. K. Loveday, G. K. Zath, D. A. Bikos, Z. J. Jay, C. B. Chang. Screening of additives for droplet qRT-PCR thermocycling enables single influenza A virus genome quantification. BioRxiv Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 2020. [Preprint]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.28.065342

E. K.Loveday, K. S. Hain, I. Kochetkova, J. F. Hedges, A. Robison, D. T. Snyder, S. K. Brumfield, M. J. Young, M. A. Jutila, C. B. Chang, Matthew P. Taylor. Effects of inactivation method on SARS-CoV-2 virion protein and structure. bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; 2020. [Preprint]. Available from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.14.383026

Loveday EK, Diederich S, Pasick J, Jean F. (2015) Human microRNA-24 modulates highly pathogenic avian-origin H5N1 influenza A virus infection in A549 cells by targeting secretory pathway furin. J Gen Virol. Jan;96(Pt 1):30-9.

Loveday EK, Svinti V, Diederich S, Pasick J, Jean F. (2012)Temporal- and strain-specific host microRNA molecular signatures associated with swine-origin H1N1 and avian-origin H7N7 influenza A virus infection. J Virol. Jun;86(11):6109-22.

Plumb AW, Patton DT, Seo JH, Loveday EK, Jean F, Ziegler SF, Abraham N. 2012. Interleukin-7, but not thymic stromal lymphopoietin, plays a key role in the T cell response to influenza A virus. PLoS One 7:e50199.

Additional publications searchable by author via CBE Publications

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