Nina Johannesson is a research technician at the OrganoVIR Labs. She obtained a BSc from the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht and an MSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Amsterdam. She is involved in the Focus-on-Virus project, working on gut organoid models for virology. This project will develop innovative complex gut-brain organoid models for picornaviruses and HIV infection. Furthermore, she supported the GUTVIBRATIONS project in the establishment of a gut epithelial-mesenchyme cell co-culture model.