A novel approach to the structure and assembly of viruses

This £700,000 grant is led by Professor Reidun Twarock and funded by The Leverhulme Trust and gives funding to a portfolio of research projects:

Postdoc	Dr Thomas Keef	A new symmetry principle applied to the structure of simple viruses – implications on virus assembly and virus evolution
Postdoc	Dr Karim Elsawy	An energy landscape approach to virus assembly
Postdoc	Dr Eric Dykeman	Dynamic properties of viruses
Research student	Jess Wardman	A computer tool for the computation of the geometric constraints on viral capsid proteins arising from the 3-d symmetry principle
Research student	Simone Racca	Martinsitic transitions in viral capsid geometries
Research student	Nick Grayson	Virus assembly via a Hamiltonian path approach

Press Release: 2 April 2007