The objective of the meeting will be to gather theoreticians and experimentalists from France and surroundings who work on viral systems by using theoretical concepts and experimental techniques borrowed from physics. The topics should cover the structure and the dynamics of assembly and disassembly of viruses as well as their evolution, but also their potential use in nanosciences, materials and biotechnologies.

The meeting will be held at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides in Orsay. The admission is free but all participants must register prior to attending. Coffee and buffet will be free of charge.

Contact: virophysics@sciencesconf.org

Pascale BOULANGER - Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), France

Assembly and maturation of Bacteriophage T5 capsid

Martin CASTELNOVO - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Viral self-assembly: elasticity and capsid shapes

Jeroen CORNELISSEN - University of Twente, The Netherlands

Packing protein cages with functional cargo

William GELBART - University of California Los Angeles, USA

In vitro reconstituted virus-like particles and RNA gene delivery systems

Eric GRELET - Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France

Filamentous viruses as tunable building blocks for self-assembled and self-organized structures

Amélie LEFORESTIER - Université Paris-Sud, France

Polymorphism of DNA confined in the bacteriophage capsid

Cristian MICHELETTI - International School for Advanced Studies, Italy

Mechanical and assembly units of viral capsids identified via quasi-rigid domain decomposition

Jean-Luc PELLEQUER - Institut de Biologie Structurale, France

Tobacco Mosaic Virus: AFM imaging, deformation, and metrology

Stéphane BRESSANELLI - Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), France

Guillaume TRESSET - Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, France

Mélanie DECRAENE - Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, France

Sabine HOARAU - Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, France