The Luque Lab investigates the physical structure and ecological properties of viruses by combining mathematical and computational models in close collaboration with experimentalists. The lab is part of the Viral Information Institute (VII) and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University.
The lab is currently developing new methods to investigate how the physical architecture of viruses have determined the emergence of viral structural lineages and how bacteriophages–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 lab is currently developing new methods to investigate how the physical architecture of viruses have determined the emergence of viral structural lineages and how bacteriophages–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.