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Brownbag #119 (1pm, Fri, 11/20/09, YH2050) 2 days 18 hours ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear colleagues,

This friday, we meet to discuss a 1991 paper from the Ahlquist group on template specificity and replication rates of bromovirus RNAs.

PDF reprints are available at ...

Brownbag #118 (Tomorrow, 10/30, 1pm, YH2050) 3 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Hello all, 
Due to the short notice and recent discussions at group meeting about viral re/assembly reactions, we shall revisit (third time) the paper on the assembly of CCMV capsid pr...

Brownbag #117 (Fri, 10/09/09, 1pm, YH2050) 6 weeks 3 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

This week, we will discuss an article from our collaborator ALN Rao's lab at UC Riverside.
The title is self-explanatory:
"Packaging of Tobacco Mosaic Vir...

Brownbag #116 (Fri, 10/2/09, 1pm, YH2050) 7 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

Here are two papers from the 70s which investigate the secondary structure of viral RNA molecules by electron microscopy. The first paper by Jacobson investigates the eff...

Brownbag #115 (Friday, 9/25/09, Noon, YH 2050) 8 weeks 3 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

This Friday, we'll continue our discussion on membrane blebbing with a slightly more physical paper titled "Life and Times of a Cellular Bleb" from the Mahadevan g...

Brownbag #114 (Friday, 11am, YH3047) 9 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Hello folks, At journal club tomorrow, we will discuss the paper on membrane rafts from the Simons group. PDF reprints are available at:

Brownbag #113 (09/04/09, Friday, 12:00pm, YH2050) 11 weeks 2 days ago Mauricio Comas Garcia

Dear all,
This Friday we will discuss the next protocol for In vitro translation of Plant Viral RNA for Journal Club. Friday 4th, at 12:00 pm in YH2050.
Here is the link 

Brownbag #112 (08/21/09, 12pm, YH2050) 13 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Hello folks,

This friday, we will discuss a recent paper titled
"RNA packing specificity and folding during assembly of the bacteriophage MS2",
from the Stockley group at Univers...

Brownbag # 111 (08/14/09, 12pm, YH2050) 14 weeks 3 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear colleagues,

This Friday, we will discuss a paper titled "Membrane proteins organize a symmetrical virus" by Forsell et al.

PDF reprints are available at

Brownbag # 110 (07/31/09, 12pm, YH2050) 16 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

Tomorrow, we will discuss a paper titled "Expression and purification of an influenza hemagglutinin  —  one step closer to a recombinant protein-base...

Brownbag #109 (07/17/09, 12pm, YH2050) 18 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Folks,

Tomorrow, we'll revisit the paper from Journal Club #99 titled "Nanoengineering artificial lipid envelopes around Adenovirus by self-assembly", which was not completely d...

Brownbag #108 (07/10/09, 12pm, YH2050) 19 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues, 

On Friday (tomorrow), we will discuss the following paper titled:
"Virus-ribosome complexes from cell-free translation systems supplemented with cowpea chl...

Brownbag #107 (07/03/09, Friday, 12pm, YH2050) 20 weeks 1 day ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues, 

In keeping with the theme for this summer, our reading for journal club this week is: "Mg2+-Induced Compaction of Single RNA Molecules Monitored by Tethered Par...

Brownbag #106 (06/26/09, Friday, 12:00pm, YH2050) 21 weeks 1 day ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Journal Club Members, 

We meet tomorrow at noon to discuss a paper titled
"RNA isolation and Fractionation with Compaction Agents"

Reprints are available on...

Brownbag #105 (05/19/09, Friday, 1.00pm, YH2050) 22 weeks 2 days ago Mauricio Comas Garcia

 Dear journal club members:

  This friday we'll discuss the paper titled; "Modulation of the Packaging Reaction of Bacteriophage T4 Terminase by DNA Structure", by Mark O...

Brownbag #104 (06/12/09, Friday, 1:30pm, YH2050) 23 weeks 3 days ago Mauricio Comas Garcia

Dear virus journal club mates:

 This Friday we'll discuss Yupeng Ren, Sek-Man Wongand Lee-Yong Lim paper titled: In vitro-reassembled plant virus-like particles forloading of polyacids....

Brownbag #103 (05/15/09, Friday, 1.00pm, YH2050) 27 weeks 2 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Virus Enthusiasts,
 
Tomorrow, we'll discuss a truly historic paper from 1898 (not a typo, thats 111 yrs ago), the first ever report of an "unfilterable" virus from ...

Brownbag #102 (05/01/09, Fri, 1:00pm, YH2050) 29 weeks 3 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

We meet this friday again at 1pm to accommodate Aron's teaching schedule. The paper this week is an AFM study of Herpes virus DNA translocation through the nuclear pore com...

Brownbag #101 Today YH2050 12:30pm (format changed) 30 weeks 1 day ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Journal Club Members,

Since this is a late announcement for today's journal club and will not allow us enough time to read a paper, we have a different format for today's discussion.

Brownbag #100 (04/17/09, Fri, 1:00pm, YH2050) 31 weeks 3 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday we will have our 100th journal club meeting! We will have a small party to celebrate this and we will discuss the classic paper by Crick and Watson: "Structu...