Dr. Nicolás Sarute is a group leader at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (IP Mont) in Uruguay. My lab’s current interests are the analysis of host cellular factors and signaling pathways involved in modulating viral infections of public health significance in Latin America, with the goals of better understanding virus-host interactions and developing new antiviral therapies. During my doctoral studies I investigated the in vivo evolution and phylodynamics of morbillivirus in naturally infected animals by using ultradeep sequencing, thanks to a collaboration between the Universidad de la Republica (UdelaR) School of Sciences in Uruguay and the Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. In 2015 I began my postdoctoral training at the Ross lab, first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States, where I developed and implemented diverse in vitro and in vivo approaches to study arenaviruses infection. After completing my tenure at the Ross lab, I opened the Virus-Cell Interactions Lab at the IP Mont, where we analyze viral restriction factors and innate immune signaling and I mentor/supervise undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows.