Location:
Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney
Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph, +61 (2) 9385 0900 or recpt@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents
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Professor, University of Oxford and Founding Director, UK National Electron Bio-imaging Centre |
About your speaker
Dr Peijun Zhang obtained her PhD in Biophysics and Physiology from University Virginia, M.S. in Physics and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University, China. She was a postdoc, and later a staff scientist, at the National Cancer Institute, NIH. In 2006, she joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. She was recently recruited to the University of Oxford as a full professor, and jointly as the founding director of eBIC (the UK National Electron Bio-imaging Centre) at the Diamond Light Source. Dr Zhang has received many awards, including the Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, Carnegie Science Emerging Female Scientist Award, and University of Pittsburgh Senior Vice Chancellor’s Award.
Abstract
The talk will present an integrated, atomistic understanding of the molecular mechanisms of large protein complexes and assemblies involved in HIV-1 pathogenesis obtained by developing and combining novel technologies for high-resolution cryoEM and cryoET.