Code
3F009411
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
Keywords
transmission
nef
HIV
T cells
dendritic cells
Project description
The role of Nef in HIV transmission from dendritic cells to T cells will be researched. Both plain cell cultures as vaginal tissue explants will be used to study viral synapse formation and cytoskeleton dynamics in infection with wild-type or nef-mutated reporter viruses.