Lecture by Prof. Alex Evilevitch under the "Breaking barriers - physical chemistry in biological systems" series

PD2PI fellows are invited to attend the fourth lecture organised under the series: Breaking barriers - physical chemistry in biological systems. It will be delivered by Prof. Alex Evilevitch from Lund University.

Alex Evilevitch`s research is in the area of Virus Biophysics. Research focuses on key physical mechanisms for infectivity and replication of double-stranded DNA and RNA viruses. Experimental model systems used in my group are dsDNA bacteriophages (phage lambda and phage T5), human Herpes viruses (e.g. HSV-1) and human Rotaviruses (dsRNA). I am specifically interested in physical mechanisms of DNA packaging and ejection from viral capsids, viral packaging motors, DNA structural transitions inside the capsids associated with infection, viral DNA ejection dynamics, assembly and mechanical stability of viral capsids, effects of molecular crowding on viral DNA ejection and viral replication in vivo, viral DNA condensation.

Date of the lecture: 30.05.2023, 11:00
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 987 1478 8533 
Passcode: 710475