Peek Behind the Paper: Pierre-Yves Lozach on Rift Valley fever virus

In this ‘Peek Behind the Paper’ feature, we take a look behind the scenes of a recent Perspective from the journal Future Virology, titled 'Rift Valley fever virus: a new avenue of research on the biological functions of amyloids?' Here, Atiya Henry, the Commissioning Editor for Future Virology at Future Science Group (London, UK), asks corresponding author of the study Pierre-Yves Lozachto (Heidelberg University; Germany) about Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV), a mosquito-borne viral zoonosis that primarily infects domestic animals and humans. What inspired you to write this piece? The elegant simplicity of RVFV has always fascinated me, so basic but so frighteningly...