News and Events
January 9, 2024 , Physics World "Viruses change structure at the temperature of the human body to better infect us". If you want to know in simple words a possible mechanism of viral genome delivery, read more in this link (it opens a new webpage).
November 8, 2023, Lund University press release on our pioneering study published in PNAS showing how temperature triggers release of viral genome by changing the form and density of DNA, making it fluid-like. This mechanism causes infection. To read more about the Lund University press release, click here (it opens a new webpage).
March 8, 2022: Forskning & Framsteg (largest Swedish popular science magazine) article on our discovery how herpesviruses protect host cells from exploding during viral infection (in Swedish). To read the article, click here(it opens a new webpage).
February 24, 2022, Lund University press release on our published breakthrough study in PNAS showing how herpesviruses mechanically modify cell nucleus to protect it from damage during viral DNA replication (in Swedish). To read more about the Lund University press release, click here(it opens a new webpage).
To read more News and events about our research group, click here (it opens a new webpage).
Contact Us
Alex Evilevitch
Professor of Cell Biology, Virus Biophysics group
Alex [dot] Evilevitch [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alex[dot]Evilevitch[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se)
Phone: +46 (0)46 222 09 47
Affiliations (click on the name of each institution to be directed to the webpage)
Department of Experimental Medical Science (Primary)
NanoLund (Affiliated)
MAX IV Laboratory (Collaboration)
European Spallation Source (Collaboration)
