Entries by Lars-Anders Carlsson

New publication on poliovirus assembly in Nature communications

Combining cryo-electron tomography with virology and cell biology, the Carlson lab published an in situ structural study of poliovirus assembly and its links to autophagy. The first author is Selma Dahmane (Umeå) and the project was a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (USA) and Monash University (Australia). Read the open access paper here: […]

Collaborative grant for flavivirus research

The Swedish Research Council has decided to award a 25.2 MSEK grant to a coalition of research groups at Umeå University and the University of Helsinki within the call “Research environment grant within infection and antibiotics”. The project “Multimodal imaging and proteomics to study flavivirus replication and molecular disease mechanisms” is headed by flavivirologist Anna […]