Dr. Christiane Wobus is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. In 1997, she received her M.S. from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, and then her PhD from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 2000. She returned to the USA to perform her postdoctoral work under Dr. “Skip” Virgin at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where she co-discovered murine norovirus and her interest in enteric viruses was ignited. In 2007, she joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2014. Today her laboratory investigates different aspects of noroviruses and astroviruses, major causes of gastroenteritis worldwide, using a combination of transformed cell culture systems, non-transformed intestinal organoids and mouse models. The long-term goal of her research program is to gain a better understanding of enteric viruses and identify conserved features that may lead to the development of effective prevention and control strategies for viral causes of gastroenteritis. In addition, she has multiple service roles. She is an editor for Journal of General Virology and Journal of Virology, associate editor of PLoS Pathogens, and chair of the American Society for Virology travel awards committee and the University of Michigan Institutional Biosafety Committee.