William Bakhache is a postdoctoral fellow at the Quantitative Virology and Evolution Unit (QVEU) at the Laboratory of Viral Diseases (NIH-NIAID, Bethesda MD, main campus) under the supervision of Patrick Dolan, Ph.D. At the QVEU, William is developing approaches to explore the mutational landscape of viral proteins. In his talk, William will share his unpublished work related to investigating the tolerance of a variety of insertion sequences in viral proteomes.