{"108001":{"#nid":"108001","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Prof. Aravind Asokan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Aravind Asokan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETowards Synthetic Virology \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnalytical Division Seminar Series\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EViruses are remarkably plastic entities.\u0026nbsp; New strains evolve constantly \ndriven by genetic drift\u003Cbr \/\u003Eand iterative mutagenesis.\u0026nbsp; Acceleration of \nthese evolutionary processes in a laboratory setting will greatly impact\n our ability to understand molecular mechanisms underlying viral \ninfection as well as vector design for gene therapy applications.\u0026nbsp; The \noverarching goal of our lab is to combine the tools and principles of \nmolecular biology \u0026amp; genetics with chemistry \u0026amp; structural biology\n to generate a synthetic viral toolkit.\u0026nbsp; The resulting engineered viral \nstrains are utilized to unravel viral infectious pathways, provide novel\n vectors for gene therapy and reagents for molecular genetics \napplications.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lyon@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EProf. Andrew Lyon\u003C\/a\u003E (404-894-4090).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Aravind Asokan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETowards Synthetic Virology \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnalytical Division Seminar Series\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Prof. Aravind Asokan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill"}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2012-02-09 10:49:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:49","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-06T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-06T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-06T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-06 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-06 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-06 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/genetics.unc.edu\/faculty\/asokan","title":"Aravind Asokan"}],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShirley Tomes 404-894-0591\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:shirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eshirley.tomes@chemistry.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}