Rui da Costa obtained his PhD in infection biology at the Hannover Biomedical Research School, Germany. During his PhD, he explored the host factors that drive the response to hepatitis C virus infection, both in vivo and in vitro. Rui da Costa then moved to the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, to investigate the dynamics of RNA-RNA interactions between host RNA and viral RNA of positive-stranded RNA viruses.
He has just joined the Helmholtz Institute Würzburg as a postdoctoral researcher. In the Caliskan lab, he will use CLIP-like techniques and CRISPR screens to elucidate RNA-based gene regulation in viral-infected cells. His particular focus will be on the trans-acting factors and modifications that regulate reading frame maintenance and recoding.
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