Education
	Ph.D. student, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
	Current position
	Ph.D. student, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. Advisor: Dr. William T. Jackson. Thesis Project: Examine the interactions between picornaviruses and the autophagic pathway
	Publications
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		Richards, A. L. and Jackson, W. T. (2013). How Positive-Strand RNA Viruses Benefit from Autophagosome Maturation. J Virol. 
	 
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		Richards, A. L. and Jackson, W. T. (2013). Isolation of Radiolabeled Viral Particles from H1 HeLa Cells. Bio-Protocol 13(6): http://www.bio-protocol.org/wenzhang.aspx?id=872
	 
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		Richards, A. L. and Jackson, W. T. (2013). Behind closed membranes: the secret lives of picornaviruses? PLoS Pathog 9(5): e1003262. 
	 
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		Richards, A. L. and Jackson, W. T. (2013). That which does not degrade you makes you stronger: infectivity of poliovirus depends on vesicle acidification. Autophagy 9(5): 806-807.
	 
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		Richards, A. L. and Jackson, W. T. (2012). Intracellular vesicle acidification promotes maturation of infectious poliovirus particles. PLoS Pathog 8(11): e1003046.