Researchers in the Kirchdoerfer Lab are identifying which structures are conserved (and which aren’t) across coronaviruses.
structural biology
Crystallizing science, one protein at a time
It’s square one. It’s step one. It puts the “basic” in basic science. How ever you describe it, understanding protein structure and function through what’s called X-ray crystallography is an important approach in many areas of biochemistry, including drug design. And it’s a technique many researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at UW–Madison specialize in.