Code
3F009411
Looptijd
01-10-2011 → 30-09-2015
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Onderzoeksdisciplines
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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
Trefwoorden
dendritische cellen
HIV
T cellen
Nef
transmissie
Projectomschrijving
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.