Title: Mechanics, Infection and Self-Assembly of Viral particles: a Physical Virology approach

2/3/2021

Archive MPBP seminar Spring 2021 Speaker: Dr. Wouter Roos Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics, University of Groningen Host: Dr. Owen Pornillos

Title: Super-resolution microscopy of organelle structure and dynamics, from centrioles to mitochondria

12/18/2020

Archive Spring 2021 Speaker: Dr. Suliana Manley Associate Professor of Physics Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Host: Dr. Peter Kasson

Title: The sigma enigma: from opioid receptor to TMEM97

12/18/2020

Archive MPBP seminar Spring 2021 Speaker: Dr. Lian Guo Department of Surgery University of Virginia Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm

Title: Visualization of HIV membrane fusion inhibition by Serinc5 at multiple length scales

12/18/2020

Archive MPBP seminar Spring 2021 Amanda Ward - PhD Defense Host: Dr. Lukas Tamm

Christopher Caffalette Thesis Defense: Structural studies of the Gram-negative O antigen ABC transporter WzmWzt

11/5/2020

Archive Fall 2020 MPBP seminar Thesis Defense: Christopher Caffalette Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics   Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer

Congratulations Pornillos Lab for paper in Science on reconstitution of HIV replication

11/5/2020

There is great news from Owen Pornillos' lab. They published a paper in Science on the Reconstitution and visualization of capsid-dependent replication of HIV transcription.  See  

Biophysical Society names Dr. Lukas Tamm in their 2021 Class of Fellows

11/5/2020

Dr. Lukas Tamm has been honored as a member of the 2021 Class of Fellows in recognition for his contributions to our understanding of the structural biology and functional biophysics…

Ai Lab develops improvement to fluorescent biosensors widely used in scientific and medical research.

10/20/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Huiwang Ai and his lab, on their new red-shifted biosensor paper published in Nature Chemical Biology and  highlighted in UVA Today by Science feature writer Josh Barney.…

Visualizing Influenza Virus Assembly

10/14/2020

Archive Fall 2020 MPBP seminar Speaker: Dr. Seema Lakdawala Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics University of Pittsburgh Host: Dr. Peter Kasson Via Zoom

Department Retreat – Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics

8/14/2020

Archive Fall 2020 MPBP seminar The department (virtual) research retreat will be held on Monday, October 26, 2020.  Dr. Eva Nogales (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, HHMI) will be our…