Dr. Fernando Vilchez-Delgado, a PhD student with Dr. Marieke Rosenbaum, will be the presenter discussing a paper entitled ‘Genotypic and Phenotypic Diversity of Herpes Simplex Virus 2 within the Infected Neonatal Population’, published in mSphere. The paper is available https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00590-18.