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-Jamal, L. Lacerda and K. Kostarelos, ACS Nano 2 (2008) 1040-1050 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn8000565). Note that there is also a commentary in the same issue that might be interesting to read: "Adenovirus in a synthetic membrane wrapper: an example of hybrid vigor?" by D.H. Thompson, ACS Nano 2 (2008) 821-826 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn800279s).

[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 folks,

For our 98th journal club, we'll discuss a paper thats in the same vein as our last group meeting discussion about compaction of DNA by polycations.

This week's paper is titled

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 crystallography" by P. Gouet, J.M. Diprose, J.M. Grimes, R. Malby, J.N. Burroughs, S. Zientara, D.I. Stuart and P.P.C. Mertens, Cell 97 (1999) 481-490 (http://download.cell.com/pdf/PIIS0092867400807588.pdf).

See you next Friday at 12:30 pm in YH2050.

Peter

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 possible plagiarism" by T.C. Long, M. Errami, A.C. George, Z. Sun and H.R. Garner, Science 323 (2009) 1293 - 1294 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1167408)
- "Extremely high mutation rate of a hammerhead viroid " by S. Gago, S.F. Elena, R. Flores and R. Sanjuan, Science 323 (2009) 1308 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1169202).

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. Nguyen, Vijay S. Reddy and Charles S. Brooks III: Nano Letters 7 (2007) p.338-344 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl062449h).

See you Friday at the usual place at the usual time!

Peter

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 flexibility of RNA structures".  [J. Chem. Phys. 125, 194905 (2006)]

Reprints are available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2364190

As noted in the subject line above, we will meet at the regular time and place this week.

See you on Friday!

Ajay

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. 61-87 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143334).

See you Friday at 12:30 pm in YH2050,

Peter

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. Mirro, T. Pederson, S. Biswal and A. Rein, Journal of Virology 81 (2007) p. 6623-6631 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02833-06).

We are meeting an hour later this time, at 1:30 pm.

See you Friday at 1:30 pm in YH2050,

Peter

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 (2001) p. 5246-5251 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.091000398).

Next week we will discuss "Selective and nonselective packaging of cellular RNAs in retrovirus particles" by S.J. Rulli, C.S. Hibbert, J. Mirro, T. Pederson, S. Biswal and A. Rein, Journal of Virology 81 (2007) p. 6623-6631 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02833-06).

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 published by the Baker group at Purdue.

Reprints are available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.14.9236-9243.2005

Please note from the subject line above that we are back to the usual time and venue.

Best wishes,

Ajay