FASEB SRC on Virus Structure and Assembly

Major Goals Rapid progress due to the development of new technologies. This field is advancing rapidly as the result of new methods using X-ray crystallography, biophysical assays, mass spectrometry, and high resolution cryo-electron microscopy cryoEM. Those methods, along with longer established technologies, have resulted in a new era providing a deeper understanding mechanisms of the structures of viruses, their proteins and nucleic acids, and of the host components they interact with. The analysis of such data is a common theme in many presentations at this conference, and is rapidly driving the field into exciting new territory.