Dear Colleagues,

At tomorrow's journal club we shall review a theory paper titled "Single Polymer Molecules in a Protein Nanopore in the Limit of a Strong Polymer-Pore Attraction" by Krasilnikov et al.

Reprints are available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.018301

The time and venue remain the same as last week (see subject line).

With regards,

Ajay

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Research Interest: Theory of Viral Assembly, Structure and Energetics.

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Certainly one of the most intriguing facts about viruses is that the large majority of them display full icosahedral symmetry, arguably the highest and also the most esthetically-pleasing symmetry shown in Nature. The elements of icosahedral symmetry involve 6 five-fold rotation axes, 10 three-fold, and 15 two-fold.

Ours is a joint experimental/theoretical research group devoted to understanding what viruses are and how they "work".