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Spring highlights and what’s next!In the newsletter, we highlight recent activities, ongoing initiatives, developments, and opportunities for collaboration within the network. Among other, this spring, the initiative was present at the Nordic Public Health Conference in Gothenburg, contributing to discussions on building resilient communities. We also celebrated the inauguration of the Lund Univer

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/pandemics-alertness-newsletter - 2025-11-29

Congratulations to Gemma Atkinson, Roni Odai and Vasili Hauryliuk at the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, and their collaborators, on their study “The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes” that is published in the high impact scientific journal Science Advances. This study con

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/ai-powered-viral-protein-models-advance-global-health-research - 2025-11-29

Joakim Esbjörnsson, Associate Professor in Virology, lecturer and head of the Systems Virology research group at Lund University Virus Centre (LUVC). Joakim is coordinating the Pandemics and Alertness initiative together with Professor Anette Agardh from the unit of Social Medicine and Global health. What inspired you to form the initiative Pandemics & Alertness?To me it became clear during the pa

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/building-bridges-pandemic-preparedness-interview-joakim-esbjornsson-coordinator-pandemics-alertness - 2025-11-29

Tisdag 27/11 kl 16.30-19.00Plats: Agardhsalen, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, SUS, MalmöModerator: Professor Per BjörkmanMötet vänder sig till infektionsintresserade läkare och sjuksköterskor, mikrobiologer och forskare inom Region Skånes sjukvård och Medicinska fakulteten vid Lunds universitet. Konceptet är detsamma som tidigare år, dvs vi varvar korta presentationer med laboratorieinriktning med

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/2711-infektionsforum-0 - 2025-11-29

För fem år sedan var vårt samhälle lamslaget av spridningen av ett nytt virus, SARS-CoV-2, och covid-19-pandemin var ett faktum. Med utgångspunkt i Coronakommissionens synpunkter från det första pandemiåret bjuder Centrum för hälsokriser in till ett öppet symposium för att blicka tillbaka och reflektera över både goda exempel och utmaningar inför nästa hälsokris. Under en eftermiddag ser vi tillba

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/lat-inte-pandemins-lardomar-ga-till-spillo-framtidens-beredskap-formas-idag - 2025-11-29

Congratulation to Wolfgang Knecht and his collaborators, who have been awarded a grant for a LINXS theme initiative titled Pandemics and Alertness (PandA)! The theme is a “spin-off” from the Pandemics and Alertness the thematic collaboration initiative at Lund University, with a deeper focus on advancing understaning of viruses and strengthening crisis preparedness. The themes want to achieve an i

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/grant-awarded-linxs-theme-initiative-pandemics-and-alertness-panda - 2025-11-29

Warm welcome to a research seminar on ”the Role of HSV-1 ICP0 Dimer Formation in Viral Replication and Protein Functions”, given by Erick McCloskey, herpesvirologist in Professor David Davido’s lab at the University of Kansas. This seminar offers an unique opportunity to discuss and exchange knowledge on the latest trends in the field of Structure and Function of Herpesviruses.· Date and time: Nov

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/seminar-2411 - 2025-11-29

Major investment in virus research at Lund University - new high-risk laboratory built Storsatsning på virusforskning på Lunds universitet – nytt högrisklabb byggs - Sydsvenskan Virus center

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/creation-virus-centre-lund-university - 2025-11-29

Carolina will be joining the Systems Virology group in the spring 2020 semester and she will be working on the transcriptomics project.

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/new-students-have-joined-team - 2025-11-29

science.pdf File science.pdf Subscriber: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES | Sign In as Individual | FAQ | Access Rights | Join AAAS21 July 2003DNA Goes BallisticJust how viruses manage to get their DNA into a host cell has been a long-standing question in biology. Research now shows that they shoot their DNA in by keeping it under high pressure.DNA cannon. The Lambda virus keeps itsDNA under high

https://www.virus-biophysics.lu.se/article/dna-goes-ballistic - 2025-11-29

nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf File nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf High-powered living DNA cannonWe all know that a viral infection can be developed extremely quickly, but in factit's even more dramatic than that - the process is literally explosive.The pressure inside a virus is 40 atmospheres, and it is just waiting for anopportunity to blow up. The virus is like a

https://www.virus-biophysics.lu.se/article/high-powered-living-dna-cannon - 2025-11-29

What is the workshop about?Wavefunction methods, including multiconfigurational theory, are well-established techniques for electronic structure calculations of both ground and excited states in chemistry and molecular spectroscopy. However, these methods have been seldom applied in the context of solid-state systems due to their computationally intensive nature and the requirement for additional

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/wavefunction-methods-solid-state-matter-wfs-2025-2503-2803-2025-hotel-arkon-park-gdansk-poland - 2025-11-29

The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund has decided to award Nabanita Mandal endowments for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology – Chemistry for a project on  “Unraveling Molecular Pathways of Toxic Aggregation in Amyloid Lateral Sclerosis” (100 kSEK).The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund has decided to award Gianluca Utzeri endowments for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology -

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/nabanita-mandal-and-gianluca-utzeri-has-been-awarded-research-grants-royal-physiographic-society - 2025-11-29

Chemical Physics Reviews from American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing, appointed Petter Persson, Associate Editor.Read more about the news on Chemical Physics Reviews Twitter/X @ChemPhysRev or AIP Publishing's website.

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/chemical-physics-reviews-american-institute-physics-aip-publishing-appointed-petter-persson - 2025-11-29

Ulf RydeGrant: 600 000 SEK/ year, during 2 years.TitleDevelopment of methods to treat metal sites in ligand-binding calculationsAbstractCalculating accurate estimates for the binding affinity of small molecules (e.g. drug candidates) to a macromolecular receptor is one of the most important challenges of computational chemistry. The most promising approach is free-energy perturbation (FEP), which

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/ulf-ryde-and-valera-veryazov-received-grants-essence - 2025-11-29

TitleOptimised capacitive mixing and anomalous underscreening in salt solutionsAmount1.21MSEK PurposeEstablishment of postdoc scholarship

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/jan-forsman-received-funds-olle-engkvists-stiftelse - 2025-11-29

The SciLifeLab research community is a dynamic, interdisciplinary network of scientists from various fields within molecular life sciences, united by the goal of addressing critical challenges in health, biodiversity, and sustainability. With a unique mandate to promote biology-, technology-, and data-driven excellence in life sciences, SciLifeLab fosters collaboration and innovation, driving brea

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/marie-skepo-has-been-appointed-scilifelab-group-leader - 2025-11-29

Physical Review B with DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.115103

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/physical-review-b - 2025-11-29

Biochemical Society announcement of 2026 awardOur 2026 Inspiration and Resilience Award goes to Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin! Alongside outstanding research at the borders between chemistry, physics & biology, @lynnkamerlin.bsky.social advocacy for science policy and gender issues establishes her as a role model for young scientists. More information about Lynn Kamerlin and the Biochemical Society

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/lynn-kamerlin-receives-biochemical-society-inspiration-and-resilience-award-2026-3 - 2025-11-29

Photochemical reactions in which cobalt(II) complexes catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in aqueous solution has been studied by time-resolved spectroscopy and computational modeling. More information can be found in the Research Article by P. Persson, J. Lloret-Fillol, B. Dietzek-Ivanšić, E. Nordlander and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202582801). Cover illustration created by Iria Bo

https://www.compchem.lu.se/article/photocatalysis-research-cover-chemistry-european-journal - 2025-11-29