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 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!
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!
August 1, 2025
The Torbett Lab welcomes Karthik Gottimukkala, a Fellow joining us via the Invent@SC program. His research interests include nanoparticles, non-viral vectors, and gene therapy. Welcome to SCRI!
July 1st, 2025
Congratulations to Val Grillo Alvarado who received a 2-year Graduate Fellowship from the American Society of Hematology!
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!
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!
May 16th, 2025
Rithika Sivakumar, a UW undergraduate, presented a poster on “Evaluating the Effect of Lenacapavir and Analogs on HIV-1 Capsid Assembly,” and
Rowan Floyd, a UW undergraduate, presented a poster on “Determining the Impact of the Nuclear Export Pathway on HIV-1 Ribonucleoprotein Composition”
at the annual University of Washington Undergraduate Symposium at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Congratulations!
April 10th, 2025
Congratulations to Christian Gallardo upon his acceptance of a Senior Scientist position with Twist Bioscience in San Francisco!