Understanding HIV Biology for the Development of New Therapeutic Strategies
May 20th, 2026
Congratulations to Mia Faerch, who was invited to present at the Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus annual meeting in New York with her talk titled, “Probing Lenacapavir Induced Gag Lattice Pre-Maturation.”
May 11-15, 2026
The Torbett Lab is pleased to share that our fellows presented their work for the 2026 ASGCT annual meeting in Boston, MA! Kurt Berckmueller, Karthik Gottimukkala, and Jerry Lu.
May 11th, 2026
Bruce Torbett was invited to present “Knocking at the door: Improving cellular entry” at the “Innovations in targeting and detargeting to enhance the viral gene therapy” session, at the 2026 American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) annual meeting in Boston, MA.
April 8th, 2026
Lidiia Gagarina was invited to present her poster, “Development of novel CD8 binders for in vivo delivered gene therapies,” at the Fred Huch Cancer Center Translational Science and Therapeutics Retreat. Congratulations!
October 17th, 2025
Torbett Lab Graduate Student Elizabeth Platin presented a poster titled “Partners in Crime: Unveiling the Molecular Functions of Host-Factors during HIV-1 Gag-mediated Assembly and Viral Packaging” at the 2025 University of Washington Pathobiology Program Retreat. Congratulations!
September 29th, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Jerry Lu, a Fellow joining us via the Invent@SC program. His research interests include viral and non-viral gene therapy. Welcome to SCRI!
June 16th, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Liz Platin, a Pathobiology Graduate Student, who will be joining us to undertake their thesis research studies.The Torbett Lab also welcomes Lidiia Gagarina, a M3D Graduate Student, who will be joining us and Chris Peterson (Fred Hutch) Group to undertake her thesis research studies.
Welcome to SCRI!
September 24-27th, 2025
Bruce Torbett was invited to present “Application of Long-Read Sequencing to Follow Individual HIV-1s in the “Swarm” in Blood of People with HIV and Viral Transcripts During Latency” at the Immunovirology Masterclass, Island of Tinos, Greece.
September 16th, 2025
Jessica Albert gave an oral presentation, “Bridging the Bioinformatic Gap for Analyzing Retroviral Splicing in the Context of Long-read RNA Sequencing of HIV-1” at the annual Brothman Baty Institute’s 2025 Long-Read Sequencing Symposium at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Congratulations!
June 23-24th, 2025
Mia Faerch was invited to present “Lenacapavir and Analogs Disrupts the Late Stages of the HIV-1 Lifecycle by Inducing Premature-Capsid Lattice Formation During Gag Assembly” at the annual NIAID HIV Structure Virtual Meeting at Bethesda, MD. Congratulations!