Physical Virology

Presentations

• Mechanobiology of viral capsids

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Juan Perilla

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Juan Perilla

    • University of Delaware

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• Three component phase separation along a deformable surface with applications to viral budding

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Joseph McTiernan

    • University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Joseph McTiernan

    • University of California, Merced

  • Roya Zandi

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • University of California, Merced

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• Kinetically Limited Fluorescent Labeling of a Small Icosahedral Capsid for Superradiant Virus-like Particles (srVLPs).

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: (1) I.B.Tsvetkova, A.A. Sushma, J. C-Y. Wang, W. L. Schaich, B. Dragnea, ACS Nano, 2019, 13(10), 11401.
  (2) A.A. Sushma, B. Zhao, I.B. Tsvetkova, C. Perez-Segura, J.A. Hadden-Perilla, J.P. Reily, B. Dragnea, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2021, 125(37), 10494.

  Presenters

  • Kristen White

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  Authors

  • Kristen White

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Bogdan Dragnea

    • Indiana University Bloomington

  • Irina Tsvetkova

    • Indiana University Bloomington

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• Conformational landscape of the HBV capsid CAM binding site revealed by all-atom MD simulations and unsupervised learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: Mechanistic insights into CAM-induced disruption of HBV capsids revealed by all-atom MD simulations
  Carolina Pérez-Segura, Boon Chong Goh, Jodi A. Hadden-Perilla
  bioRxiv 2025.09.24.678444; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.24.678444

  Presenters

  • Carolina Perez Segura

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Carolina Perez Segura

    • University of Delaware

  • Jodi Hadden-Perilla

  • Boon Chong Goh

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• Thermodynamic and Kinetic Modeling of Polymorphism in Viral Capsid Assembly

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Kevin Yang

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • Kevin Yang

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Roya Zandi

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Alireza Ramezani

  • Juana Martin Gonzalez

  • Paul van der Schoot

    • Eindhoven University of Technology

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• Motor-Free Locomotion of Influenza A through Complex Glycan Landscapes

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Siddhansh Agarwal

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Siddhansh Agarwal

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Liya Oster

  • Boris Veytsman

  • Gregory Huber

  • Daniel Fletcher

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• Effective charge of RNA in a fully packaged viral particle  

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Monika Kumari

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Monika Kumari

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Kush Coshic

  • Aleksei Aksimentiev

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Coarse-Grained Simulations of the Asymmetric Mechanical Response of MS2 Bacteriophage

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Yinxiang Li

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Yinxiang Li

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Christopher Maffeo

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Yuzhen Feng

  • Wouter Roos

  • Aleksei Aksimentiev

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Incorporating time-varying viral production in virus dynamics models

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: Time-varying production in virus dynamics models (planned)

  Presenters

  • Hana Dobrovolny

    • Texas Christian University

  Authors

  • Hana Dobrovolny

    • Texas Christian University

  • Page Matthews

    • Texas Christian University

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• From Assembly to Breakdown: The Physics of T=3 Virus Disassembly

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Roya Zandi

    • University of California, Riverside

  Authors

  • Roya Zandi

    • University of California, Riverside

  • Samaneh Rahbar

  • Siyu Li

    • Cal Poly Pomona

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