Virology

Harvard FAS

The course focuses on the following areas of virology: (i) RNA and DNA virus replication mechanisms, (ii) innate responses to viral infection (iii) adaptive immune responses to viral infection, (iv) viral latency and reactivation, (v) inhibition of viral infection. The course will comprise lectures as well as reviewing literature that describes fundamental breakthroughs relevant to these areas. Within those areas, the class will read and discuss papers dealing with virus structure,…