Area: Ahlquist Lab

Paul Ahlquist

I am honored to lead the John and Jeanne Rowe Center for Research in Virology at the Morgridge Institute. To address expanding viral threats exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the

Masaki Nishikiori

I am studying the mechanisms of virus replication and virus-host interactions.

I study positive-strand RNA virus RNA replication mechanisms and virus-cancer associations. Education B.S. Biological Sciences, 1997, University of Wisconsin-Parkside M.S. Applied Molecular Biology, 1999, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Honors and Awards

Johan den Boon

The central interest in our lab is to understand how viruses replicate and how that depends on critical virus-host interactions. We hope to apply such understanding to develop and refine

James Bruce

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV-1) has claimed more than 30 million lives. The HIV-1 lifecycle is divided into two alternate states: active replication, characterized by full transcription activity at the viral