The Luque Lab is part of the Viral Information Institute (VII) and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University, and it investigates the physical architecture and ecological properties of viruses by combining mathematical and computational models in close collaboration with experimentalists.
The Luque Lab is currently developing new methods to investigate how the physical architecture of viruses have determined the emergence of viral structural lineages and shaped the ecological role of viruses in the environment. The lab is particularly interested in deciphering how bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, participate in the regulation of coral reefs and the human body.
The Luque Lab is currently developing new methods to investigate how the physical architecture of viruses have determined the emergence of viral structural lineages and shaped the ecological role of viruses in the environment. The lab is particularly interested in deciphering how bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria and are the most abundant biological entity on the planet, participate in the regulation of coral reefs and the human body.