The Luque Lab is part of the Viral Information Institute (VII) and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University. The Lab is investigating the physical and ecological properties of viruses combining mathematical and computational models, in close collaboration with experimentalists. Our current model system are bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria, and, as part of the VII, we are trying to understand the crucial role of these viruses in marine environments and the human body.

The Lab is currently seeking students and postdocs interested in problems at the interface of virology, mathematics, physics, and computational science.