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…
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…
Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science
7/20/2020
Jochen Zimmer’s lab published structure of plant cellulose synthase in Science. Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer produced on earth. Cellulose synthase is an trimeric integral membrane protein that stiches…
Important paper on COVID-19 spread by Peter Kasson and Lynn Kamerlin getting world news coverage
7/8/2020
Shina C L Kamerlin, Peter M Kasson Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciaa864, Published: 01 July 202 Newsweek , Forbes , Jerusalem Post, UVa Today: Lack of COVID-19 Lockdown…
We celebrate Mateusz Czub from Wladek Minor’s lab, recently awarded a Wagner fellowship
7/3/2020
Please join us in congratulating Mateusz Czub for earning the Robert R. Wagner Fellowship. In 1997, Bob and Mary Wagner established The Robert R. Wagner Fellowship Fund with the goal…
Structure of ion channels in membranes by cryo-EM
4/9/2020
Archive Spring 2020 Speaker: Dr. Misha Kudryashev Group Leader Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Host: Dr. Jochen Zimmer