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Brownbag #99 (04/10/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 32 weeks 4 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday we will discuss a paper on enveloped Adenovirus: "Nanoengineering artificial lipid envelopes around Adenovirus by self-assembly" by R. Singh, K.T. Al-Ja...

Brownbag #98 (04/03/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 33 weeks 4 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

[NOTE: This article will be discussed on Wed, April 8th at 3pm due to the last Journal Club being replaced by a seminar by Prof. Zandi. We will meet in room YH3096 instead of YH2050]

Hello f...

Brownbag #97 (03/27/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 35 weeks 3 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

Next week at journal club we will discuss a paper on the dsRNA bluetongue virus: "The highly ordered double-stranded RNA genome of bluetongue virus revealed by crystallo...

Brownbag #96 (03/20/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 35 weeks 6 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This week at journal club we will discuss two short articles that Mauricio suggested from the last issue of Science:
- "Scientific integrity: responding to possibl...

Brownbag #95 (03/13/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 36 weeks 6 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday at journal club we will discuss a paper with the title "Deciphering the kinetic mechanism of spontaneous self-assembly of icosahedral capsids" by Hung D...

Brownbag #94 (03/06/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 37 weeks 5 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Virus Enthusiasts,

This week, at journal club, we will revisit a recent study from the Thirumalai group in Maryland. The paper is titled: 
"Size, shape, and flex...

Brownbag #93 (2/13/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 40 weeks 6 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday at journal club we will discuss a review paper by A.L.N. Rao: "Genome packaging by spherical plant viruses", Annual Review of Phytopathology 44 (2006) p...

Brownbag #92 (2/6/09, Fri, 1:30pm, YH2050) 41 weeks 4 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

As I announced last week, this week we will discuss "Selective and nonselective packaging of cellular RNAs in retrovirus particles" by S.J. Rulli, C.S. Hibbert, J. ...

Brownbag #91 (1/30/09, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050)] 42 weeks 6 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This week at journal club we will discuss the paper "RNA is a structural element in retrovirus particles" by D. Muriaux, J. Mirro, D. Harvin and A. Rein, PNAS 98 (2...

Brownbag #90 (12/12/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 49 weeks 5 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

This Friday, we will discuss the 3d structure of the largest capsid to have been studied by cryo-EM -- the T=219 capsid of a marine algal virus PpV01. This study was publish...

Brownbag #89 (12/05/08, Fri, 3:00pm, YH3047) 50 weeks 4 days ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

Please note that journal club tomorrow is at a different time and a
venue (as noted in the subject line above).

We will discuss a Nature Gene Therapy article ti...

Brownbag #88 (11/21/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050)] 1 year 3 days ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This week at journal club we will discuss a paper on knots in DNA/RNA: "Topological constraints in nucleic acid hybridization kinetics" by J.S. Bois et al., Nucleic...

Brownbag #87 (11/07/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 1 year 2 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This week at journal club we will discuss a paper on Sindbis nucleocapsid assembly: "Sindbis virus nucleocapsid assembly: RNA folding promotes capsid protein dimerizatio...

Brownbag #86 (10/31/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 1 year 3 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This week we will discuss a paper by the famous physicist Eugene Wigner: "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences", Communications in ...

Brownbag #85 (10/24/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 1 year 4 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday at journal club we will discuss two papers:
- "Remeasuring the double helix" by R.S. Mathew-Fenn, R. Das and P.A.B. Harbury, Science 322 (2008) p....

Brownbag #84 (10/17/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 1 year 5 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

Tomorrow at journal club we will discuss a paper by K. Coombs, B. Brown and D.T. Brown: "Evidence for a change in capsid morphology during Sindbis virus development"...

Brownbag #83 (10/03/08, Fri, 12:30pm, YH2050) 1 year 7 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

Brownbag #82 (9/26/08, Fri, 12:00pm, YH2050) 1 year 8 weeks ago Peter Prinsen

Hello everyone,

This Friday we are meeting for group meeting a half hour earlier than "usual", at noon. We will discuss "A structural model for maturation of the hepatitis B v...

Brownbag #81 (9/19/08, Fri, 12:30p, YH2050) 1 year 9 weeks ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

This Friday, we will discuss entropic contributions in partially confined DNA in a paper titled "Confinement-Induced Entropic Recoil of Single DNA Molecules in a Nanofluidi...

Brownbag #80 (9/12/08, Fri, 12:30p, YH2050) 1 year 10 weeks ago Ajaykumar Gopal

Dear Colleagues,

This week we will review a 1981 paper by Erikson and Bancroft which measures the effect of viral coat protein on the secondary structure of RNA.  It is titled: "...