Dear all,

This Thursday at journal club we will discuss an article from this week's New Yorker: Darwin's surprise. Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses? by Michael Spencer (The New Yorker, December 3, 2007 p.64). A scanned version of the file can be found on our website: http://virus.chem.ucla.edu/easyfile/index.php?folder=11 . You need to log in to access the file. If you don't have an account please send me an email and I will email you the file.

Journal club will start on Thursday, November 8th at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter

Dear all,

This Thursday at the next journal club meeting we will discuss the following paper: "Visualizing infection of individual influenza viruses" by Lakadamyali et al., PNAS 100 (2003) p. 9280-9285. The link to the paper is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0832269100 .

Journal club will start on Thursday, November 8th at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter

Dear all,

This Thursday at the next journal club meeting we will discuss the following paper: "The 6-kiloDalton membrane protein of semliki forest virus is involved in the budding process" by Loewy et al, Journal of Virology 69 (1995) p 469-475. The link to the paper is: http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/69/1/469 . Note that I have spelled semliki correct this time (see Brownbag #65). It is not semlike which would imply that it would look like or behave as a Scanning Electron Microscope which it doesn't, I guess. Apparently semliki refers to a region on the border between The Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Journal club will start on Thursday, October 18th at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter

Dear all,

This Thursday at the next journal club meeting we will discuss the following paper: "Reversible acid-induced inactivation of the membrane fusion protein of semlike forest virus" by Waarts et al. (J. Virology 79 (2005) p7942-7948)). The link to the paper is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.79.12.7942-7948.2005

Journal club will start on Thursday, October 4th at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter

Dear all, In our next journal club, Thursday 09/27/07, let's discuss a paper about Semliki Forest Virus budding, which is relevant to my work on Sindbis. The title of the paper is: "Semliki Forest Virus Budding: Assay, Mechanisms, and Cholesterol Requirement" by Yanping E. Lu and Margaret Kielian. Here is the link to the paper: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=112299 We'll meet at Bill's office as usual. See you tomorrow, Odisse

Dear all,
In our next journal club, this Thursday, we will discuss an experimental
paper on solubilization of influenza membrane and its reconstitution
with influenza envelope proteins: "Use of a dialyzable short-chain
phospholipid for efficient solubilization and reconstitution of
influenza virus envelopes" by J. de Jonge et al, Biochimica et
Biophysica Acta 1758 (2006) 527-536.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.03.011
Best,
Odisse

Hello,

In the next journal club meeting, this Thursday, we will discuss a paper on the replication of certain RNAs by DNA-dependent RNA polymerases: "Structure of RNAs replicated by the DNA-dependent T7 RNA polymerase" by M. M. Konarska and P. A. Sharp (Cell 63 (1990), p609-618). The link to the website containing the papers is: http://www.cell.com/content/issue?volume=63&issue=3.

We will start earlier this time: Thursday, September 6th, at 1:00 pm in Bill's office (Young Hall 3047).

Best,

Peter

Hello,

In the next journal club meeting, this Thursday, we will discuss a review paper on dsRNA bacteriophage phi6: "Precise packaging of the three genomic segments of the double-stranded-RNA bacteriophage phi6" by L. Mindich (Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 63 (1999) p.149-160). The link to the papers is: http://mmbr.asm.org/cgi/reprint/63/1/149.

Journal club will start on Thursday, August 23th, at 3:30 pm in Bill's office (Young Hall 3047).

Best,

Peter

Hello,

In the next journal club meeting, this Thursday, we will discuss two papers on cryo-EM studies of large dsDNA viruses: "Cryo-electron microscopy of the giant mimivirus" by C. Xiao et al (Journal of Molecular Biology 353 (2005) p493-496) and "Structure and assembly of large lipid-containing DNA viruses" by X. Yan et al (Nature Structural Biology 7 (2000) p101-103). The links to the papers are: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.060 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/72360.

Journal club will start on Thursday, August 16th, at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter

Hello,

In the next journal club meeting, this Thursday, we will discuss the paper: "Two-color fluorescence analysis of individual virions determines the distribution of the copy number of proteins in herpes simplex virus particles" by R.W. Clarke et al (Biophysical Journal 93 (2007) p1329-1337). The link to the paper is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.107.106351

Journal club will start on Thursday, August 9th, at 3:30 pm in Bill's office.

Best,

Peter