This QBI fireside chat features Amber Smith, research specialist at UCSF and lead author of a study on how HIV hijacks host proteins during replication. 

In this conversation with Zelda Love, HARC Program Manager at QBI UCSF, Amber breaks down the key findings of her team’s cryo-EM structure of the HIV-1 Rev/RRE/CRM1/Ran complex—revealing new insights into how viral RNA is exported from the nucleus.

Read the full study here.