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 titled: "Reconstituted
influenza virus envelopes as an efficient carrier system for cellular
delivery of small-interfering RNAs".

Reprints are available at the URL below:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.gt.3302673

See you all tomorrow!

Ajay

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 Acids Research 33 (2005) p. 4090-4095 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gki721).

See you tomorrow at 12:30 pm in Young Hall 2050.

Best,

Peter

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 dimerization" by B.R. Linger, L. Kunovska, R.J. Kuhn and B.L. Golden, RNA 10 (2004) p. 128-138 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1261/rna.5127104).

See you this Friday at the usual time (12:30 pm) and place (YH2050).

Best,

Peter

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 Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (1960) p. 222-237. Since we do not have online access to this paper from the UCLA campus, you can download it from the website. You need to log in first and then go to "Web File Manager". You can find the file in the directory Journal_Club/Future_Articles.

See you this Friday at the usual time (12:30 pm) and place (YH2050).

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.446-449 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1158881).
- "DNA bending stiffness on small length scales" by C. Yuan, H. Chen, X.W. Lou and L.A. Archer, Physical Review Letters 100 (2008) 018102 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.018102).

We will have journal club at the usual time (12:30 pm) and place (YH2050).

Best,

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", Virus Research 1 (1984) 297-302 (you can find the paper on the journal website: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01681702).

See you tomorrow, at the usual time, 12:30 pm, at the usual place, YH2050.

Peter

Hello everyone,

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 virus core" by Roseman et al., PNAS 102 (2005) p. 15821-15826. Here's a link to the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0504874102 .

See you on Friday,

Peter

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 Nanofluidic Structure" from the Craighead lab at Cornell.

PDF reprints can be obtained at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.128103

See you on soon!

Ajay

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: "Melting of viral RNA by coat protein: Assembly strategies for elongated plant viruses".

Digital reprints are available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0042-6822(81)90542-0

See you tomorrow, (time and venue in subject line above)

Ajay