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Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 14:22:11 PM EDT
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You may or may not be aware that MIT offers a LOT of high quality undergrad and grad level courses online and for free (not interactive from what I can tell tho)
I thought these might be of interest.
7.340 Nano-life: An Introduction to Virus Structure and Assembly
Course Highlights
This course features a complete bibliography of readings and sample student assignments in the assignments section.
Course Description
Watson and Crick noted that the size of a viral genome was insufficient to encode a protein large enough to encapsidate it and reasoned, therefore that a virus shell must be composed of multiple, but identical subunits. Today, high resolution structures of virus capsids reveal the basis of this genetic economy as a highly symmetrical structure, much like a geodesic dome composed of protein subunits. Crystallographic structures and cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions combined with molecular data are beginning to reveal how these nano-structures are built. Topics covered in the course will include basic principles of virus structure and symmetry, capsid assembly, strategies for enclosing nucleic acid, proteins involved in entry and exit, and the life cycles of well understood pathogens such as HIV, influenza, polio, and Herpes. A review of cutting edge structural methods is also covered.
site = http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biol...
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Tue Sep 11, 2007 at 04:18:48 AM EDT
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professors and students of virology,microbiology.
Where is their forum, their mailing list ?
I can't believe that they aren't talking
about H5N1
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Tue Jan 09, 2007 at 13:19:39 PM EST
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( - promoted by SusanC)
We used to have a Dummies' corner thread in the old forum
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Fri Dec 22, 2006 at 23:49:35 PM EST
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I thought the end of the year might be a good time to write a review of where we stand with regards to H5N1.
UPDATE Webster slides available here
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Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 20:12:48 PM EST
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originally posted in old forum as "Conversations with a Virologist2"
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Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 19:47:42 PM EST
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originally posted in old forum as "Conversations with a Virologist"
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Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 18:58:21 PM EST
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originally posted in old forum as "What I Learnt from Talking to JKT"
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Fri Nov 24, 2006 at 14:05:14 PM EST
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Originally posted in the old forum as "Questions for Dr Taubenberger".
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