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Peter Stockley, University of Leeds
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Reidun Twarock, University of York
About:
This interdisciplinary workshop brought together high-profile researchers as well as young scientists and research students to discuss challenges at the forefront of virology. This workshop focused on important aspects of virus research such as the structure and physical properties of viruses. As a result of this workshop, a number of new collaborations were formed within and across discipline boundaries, and new experimental and theoretical approaches were inspired. The main focus of the workshop was on structure and assembly of viral capsids and the packaging of the viral genome.
Spealkers
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, University of Florida - Elucidating the Structural Mechanisms of Spherical Viral Capsid Assembly for ssDNA Viruses
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University - DNA Knots from Bacteriophage P4 Suggest a Chromosomal Organisation with High Writhe Values
Dennis Bamford, University of Helsinki - What Are the Ways to Assemble a Virion - Lessons from Nature
Charles Brooks, Scripps Research Institute - Exploring Viral Capsid Assembly, Mechanics and Dynamics
Robijn Bruinsma, University of California - Physics and the HIV Virus
Paolo Carloni, SISSA - Hybrid Coarse-Grain/Molecular Mechanics Approach for the Investigation of Viral and Bacterial Proteins
Karim ElSawy, University of York - Towards an Understanding of Assembly Polymorphism in Papovaviridae Viruses from an Energy Landscape
Alex Evilevitch, Lund University - Internal DNA Pressure Effect on Phage Capsid Stability and Infectivity
Robert Garcea, University of Colorado School of Medicine - Confounding Biologic Variables in Modeling Virus Assembly
William Gelbart, University of California - Sizes of Viral Genomes and Viral Capsids
Roger Hendrix, University of Pittsburgh - Viral Capsid Assembly: the Evolutionary Dimension
Aloysio Janner, Radboud University Nijmegen - Exploring the Interplay Between Molecular Crystallography and Geometrical Virology
Jack Johnson, Scripps Research Institute - Biophysical Analysis of Virus Particles and their Maturation: Insights Into Elegantly Programmed Nanomachines
Thomas Keef, University of York - A Hamiltonian Paths Approach to Viral Capsid Assembly of RNA Viruses
Willem Kegel, Utrecht University - Charge Regulation as a Stabilization Mechanism for Shell-Like Assemblies
Richard Kerner, University of Paris-VI - Evolutionary Trends in Icosahedral Virus Capsids: a Combinatorial Approach
Alexander McPherson, University of California - Conformation of RNA in Small Icosahedral Viruses
Ranjan Mannige, Scripps Research Institute - Constraints and Freedoms in Virus Capsids: a Theoretical Perspective
Davide Marenduzzo, University of Edinburgh - The Dynamics of Polymer Packaging and Ejection in Viral Capsids
Cristian Micheletti, SISSA - Common Large-Scale Movements in HIV-1 Protease and Other Proteolytic Enzymes: a Coarse-Grained Approach
David Nelson, Harvard University - Deformations of Viral Shells by Point Forces and Osmotic Pressure
Hung D Nguyen, Scripps Research Institute - Towards Understanding of Structural Polymorphism and Precise Control of Viral Capsid Self-Assembly
Ariella Oppenheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - SV40 Assembly in Vivo and in Vitro
Peter Prevelige, University of Alabama - Incorporation of the Portal Protein Complex into Bacteriophage Phi-29
Dennis Rapaport, Bar-Ilan University - Interactively Exploring Supramolecular Assembly: a Molecular Dynamics Approach to Virus Construction
David Reguera, Universitat de Barcelona - Hysteresis and Kinetics of Viral Self-Assembly
Ottar Rolfsson, University of Leeds - Probing MS2 Capsid Assembly with ESI-MS
Paul van der Schoot, Eindhoven University of Technology - Modified Zipper Model for the Self Assembly of Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Meera Sitharam, University of Florida - Static Modeling of Virus Assembly Pathway Probabilities
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University - Exploring Capsid Assembly Pathways through Continuous-Time Discrete Event Simulation
De Witt Sumners, Florida State University - DNA Knots Reveal Chiral Packing of DNA in Phage Capsids
Alasdair Steven, National Institutes of Health - Stochastically Variable Virus Structure
Nicola Stonehouse, University of Leeds - Phi29 – Investigating a DNA Packaging Motor
Anne Taormina, Durham University - Vibrational Modes of Viral Capsids and Viral Tiling Theory
Katerina Toropova, University of Leeds - The 3D Structure of Genomic RNA in Bacteriophage MS2; Implications for Assembly
Roman Tuma, University of Helsinki - Stochastic Aspects of RNA Packaging Motor: from Single Molecule Experiments to High Resolution Structure
Reidun Twarock, University of York - A Symmetry Approach to the Three-Dimensional Structure of Simple Viruses David Wales, University of Cambridge - Energy Landscapes and Self-Assembly of Icosahedral Shells
Adam Zlotnick, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center - How Much Do You Need to Know to Describe Virus Assembly?