- Our lab studies viruses, and that means
that we're trying to figure out how viruses function,
how they make people sick, and what we can do about it.
And all of those things are tied together,
so for example, the better we understand
what machinery viruses have and how it operates,
the better we can plan to interfere with that.
And to either prevent infections, preferably,
or treat them once they occur.
- I'm kind of just looking at the virus proteins
and maybe what cell structure they're interacting with,
and that could give us an idea
of what the virus is doing in the cell.