Program

9:30                      Welcome coffee

Imaging

10:00 - 10:25       Amélie LEFORESTIER - Université Paris-Sud, France

Polymorphism of DNA confined in the bacteriophage capsid

10:25 - 10:50       Jean-Luc PELLEQUER - Institut de Biologie Structurale, France

Tobacco Mosaic Virus: AFM imaging, deformation, and metrology

10:50 - 11:15       Discussion

11:15 - 11:30       Coffee break

Materials

11:30 - 11:55       Jeroen CORNELISSEN - University of Twente, The Netherlands

Packing protein cages with functional cargo

11:55 - 12:20       Eric GRELET - Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, France

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

12:20 - 12:45       Discussion

12:45 - 14:00       Lunch and coffee

Theory

14:00 - 14:25       Martin CASTELNOVO - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Viral self-assembly: elasticity and capsid shapes

14:25 - 14:50       Cristian MICHELETTI - International School for Advanced Studies, Italy

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

14:50 - 15:15       Discussion

15:15 - 15:30       Coffee break

Assembly

15:30 - 15:55       William GELBART - University of California Los Angeles, USA

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

15:55 - 16:20       Pascale BOULANGER - Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), France

Assembly and maturation of Bacteriophage T5 capsid

16:20 - 16:45       Discussion

End of the meeting