Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Filtered by: Microbiology
After the Paper: Understanding the viral reservoirs of HIV
Between the mid to late 1990’s, the development and introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy (c-ART) transformed the landscape of HIV care for those with access to treatment.
A virus with a sweet tooth: visualizing MERS-coronavirus attachment to host sialosides
Deadly coronaviruses have emerged recently and no vaccines or therapeutics are available to combat them. To understand how these viruses attach to and enter our cells, we determined the structure of the molecule initiating infection in complex with various sialic acid derivatives.
Beyond the DNA sequence of Clostridioides difficile
Winter 2014, I was revising a grant proposal to develop methods for characterizing bacterial methylomes, the collective DNA methylation events beyond the four canonical bases, G, A, T and C.
