“No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever-growing powers of his tools. For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.”

- Albert Claude, Nobel Lecture, 1974

Structural and functional characterization of macromolecular complexes

Our group explores two major themes in the field of structural virology: 

Developing new vaccine candidates and exploring the therapeutic potential of neutralizing monoclonal antibodies

The atomic details of replication and transcription complexes in RNA viruses