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SUMMARY:Hunting for viral packaging signals - Dr Julia Gog
DTSTART:20170206T203000Z
DTEND:20170206T213000Z
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CONTACT:Michelle Sweering
DESCRIPTION:Influenza has a genome split into several segments\, and this 
 complicates virus particle assembly as each particle must have one of each
  of the segments. This means that each of the RNA segments must contain so
 me signal\, and that this signal ought to be fairly conserved. Is this eno
 ugh to go and hunt them down using mathematics? The answer turns out to be
  yes. However\, this required some creativity in algorithm design\, drawin
 g inspiration from a number of apparently unrelated problems. This hack se
 ems to work\, but leaves some interesting mathematical problems.\n\nI'll a
 lso briefly talk about some of the other problems in influenza and infecti
 ous disease that interest me\, and general joys and  challenges of being a
  mathematician trying to research biology.\n\n\nAs usual there will be fre
 e port and juice served before the talk at 8:15PM. This talk is for member
 s only\, but there will be a chance to sign up for TMS life membership for
  £2.50.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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