De: neutron-bounces@neutronsources.org de la part de Evilevitch, Alex Envoyé: jeudi 20 avril 2017 07:09 À: neutron@neutronsources.org Objet: [Neutron] postdoc advertisement Hello, I would like to advertise an opening for a graduate student or a postdoc position. See announcement below: RESEARCH POSITIONS OPENING FOR PHD STUDENT OR POSTDOC at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Research Description: Nucleic acids constitute one of the main components of viruses by molecular weight, and the viral genome is often strongly confined into a small volume of the capsid. This is true for most prokaryotic viruses such as double-stranded (ds) DNA/RNA phages, dsDNA archaeal viruses as well as many eukaryotic viruses (e.g. herpesviruses and reoviruses). The length of ds-genome in those viruses is several hundred times longer than the diameter of the capsid. We recently found that this internal DNA stress leads to 20 atmospheres capsid pressure in human Herpesviruses. This genome pressure is responsible for DNA ejection into a cell nucleus during infection. The aim of this project is to explain how the physically stressed state of the confined viral DNA directly affects the virus infectious cycle. This research involves a quantitative biophysical approach to virology using Atomic Force Microscopy and Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS). Contact email: alexe@illinois.edu ************************************ Alex Evilevitch Associate Professor of Virology and Biophysics Department of Pathobiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2001 South Lincoln Ave M/C 002 Urbana, IL 61802 Office: 2814 217.300.5435 (phone) 217.244.7421 (fax) email: alexe@illinois.edu Web site: http://vetmed.illinois.edu/evilevitch-lab/ _______________________________________________ Neutron mailing list Neutron@neutronsources.org http://neutronsources.org/mailman/listinfo/neutron