Research interests: assembly and structure determination of viruses, virus-receptor interaction, antivirals, neutralizing antibodies, electron cryo-microscopy, image processing, crystallography. Sarah ...

The dengue virus has a roughly spherical shape. Inside the virus is the nucleocapsid, which is made of the viral genome and C proteins. The nucleocapsid is surrounded by a membrane called the ...

Virus Structure and Assembly: My laboratory uses a variety of biophysical and structural approaches to approach fundament questions in virus structure and assembly. We are particularly interested in ...

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The measles virus is an enveloped virus bearing a lipid bilayer. The bilayer holds the receptor binding hemagglutinin (H) protein and the fusion (F) protein. For infection to happen, the H protein ...

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A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria ... of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure. A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible bacterium ...

Their discovery sparked debates over the definition of viruses and the ... Within hours, a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell, replicating viral genetic material ...

From colds to cold sores, chickenpox and COVID-19, when we think about well-known infections or diseases, there's often a virus behind ... Later, the structure of these mysterious microbes was ...

It is really, really hard to imagine things so small, no matter how convoluted the example; like this (very last) one: Precisely positioning a one nanometer sized structure inside a ... "Shaking hands ...

Computational protein structure prediction tools were used to ... ligand-induced dimerization to activate a split Tobacco Etch Virus Protease (TEVp), which releases a transcription factor to ...