Understanding HIV Biology for the Development of New Therapeutic Strategies
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 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!
July 1st, 2025
Congratulations to Val Grillo Alvarado who received a 2-year Graduate Fellowship from the American Society of Hematology!
June 16th, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Liz Platin, a Pathobiology Graduate Student, who will be joining us to undertake their thesis research studies. Welcome to SCRI!
June 16th, 2025
The Torbett Lab 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!
April 10th, 2025
Congratulations to Christian Gallardo upon his acceptance of a Senior Scientist position with Twist Bioscience in San Francisco!
March 7th, 2025
Bruce Torbett was invited to presented “Proteomic mapping of HIV-1 cellular dependency factors during viral assembly” at the New Insights into HIV Eradication during the Palm Springs Symposium on HIV/AIDS.
November 25th, 2024
Bruce Torbett was invited to presented “Quantitative Proteomic Mapping of the Cellular Microenvironment of HIV-1 Gag during Assembly via Split-APEX2 Mediated Proximity Labeling” at The University Hospital Köln.
November 22nd, 2024
Bruce Torbett was invited to present “HIV immunoadhesion gene delivery to hematopoietic and B cells” at the Humanized mice: Immunotherapy and regenerative medicine EMBO Workshop.