The Mullins laboratory is located in the Rosen Building on the South Lake Union campus of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Our lab uses molecular, computational, and virus biology techniques to provide insights into the relationship between HIV and its human hosts in an effort to fight the AIDS pandemic. We use a variety of methods to document and understand the implications of HIV's extraordinary genetic diversity on the immunopathogenesis of AIDS, with a particular emphasis on acute/early infection and superinfection. We then apply this information to develop more effective vaccines and therapies in collaboration with other investigators. Our research work focuses on the acquisition and computational characterization of HIV nucleotide sequences, the development of web tools for related computational studies, in vitro studies of the growth properties of viral isolates, host genetic polymorphism analysis, and high-throughput analysis of cellular transcription.
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2016 A Pilot Study of Raltegravir Plus Combination Antiretroviral Therapy in Early Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Challenges and Lessons Learned. BioResearch open access5115-21 pubmed
2015 Polymorphisms of large effect explain the majority of the host genetic contribution to variation of HIV-1 virus load. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1124714658-63 pubmed
2015 Lack of viral control and development of combination antiretroviral therapy escape mutations in macaques after bone marrow transplantation. AIDS (London, England)29131597-606 pubmed
2015 HIV-1 infections with multiple founders are associated with higher viral loads than infections with single founders. Nature medicine21101139-41 pubmed
2015 Comparison of Major and Minor Viral SNPs Identified through Single Template Sequencing and Pyrosequencing in Acute HIV-1 Infection. PloS one108e0135903 pubmed
