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Kathryn Hastie

Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
ORCID
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Projects

Collaborative Access Team: Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center (PNCC)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
James Evans
PNNL will create and operate the Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-EM (PNCC), a state-of-the-art national center for cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) that will rapidly and efficiently collect and…

Medical Defenses Against Emerging Infectious Disease

Lead Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Principal Investigator
Erica Saphire
Hemorrhagic fever viruses like Ebola, Marburg, and Lassa cause up to 90% lethality. To study these re-emerging threats to human health and develop the needed vaccines and antivirals, our laboratory…

Structural analysis of the sole surface glycoprotein of Machupo virus

Lead Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Principal Investigator
Kathryn Hastie
Machupo virus (MACV) was discovered in the 1960s and has remained endemic to Bolivia, causing several sporadic outbreaks of the highly lethal human disease, Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever (BHF). No…

Structural Analysis of Lineage I Lassa Virus Glycoprotein

Lead Institution
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Principal Investigator
Erica Saphire
Lassa virus (LASV), the causative agent of Lassa hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in Western Africa, infecting over 100,000 people every year, resulting in roughly 5,000 deaths—yet no vaccines are…