Code
3F015908
Duration
01 October 2008 → 31 December 2008
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
HIV
T cell activation
nef
Project description
The viral protein Nef is crucial for the development of AIDS. The expression of Nef in T cells causes a shift in expression of receptors and an altered T cell activation. Our goal is to identify the important cellular partners of Nef and to unravel the exact mechanism of the altered T cell activation.