Virus Structure and Assembly:
You have reached the Prevelige laboratory in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The lab studies virus assembly using a wide variety of techniques. More...

Experimental Systems and Approaches:
The lab studies the assembly of two different viruses, the Salmonella typhimurium bacteriophage P22 and HIV. The P22 system affords the advantages of being a well defined system in which genetic manipulations are straightforward. More...

Mass Spectrometry of Macromolecular Complexes:
Mass spectrometry has become a powerful technique in structural biology as witnessed by the 2002 Nobel prize in Chemistry. More...