Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions
The Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI) was created in January 2007 to formalise the collaboration between the Université Joseph Fourier (UJF), EMBL Grenoble and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the field of virus research. Its objective is to pursue high quality research in structural and molecular biology, focused, but not exclusively, on virus-host cell interactions.
Research themes include virus structure, assembly and maturation, host and virus gene-expression mechanisms, cell biology of infected cells, innate immunity and anti-pathogen drug design. Viruses studied include influenza virus, rabies virus, Epstein-Barr virus and HIV. In addition, methods and technical developments in high throughput expression and crystallisation, synchrotron X-ray and neutron diffraction instrumentation and electron microscopy are pursued.