David A Jacques The 43rd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2018

David A Jacques

David Jacques leads the Structural Virology group in the School of Biomedical Sciences at UNSW. He completed his PhD in 2011 at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Jill Trewhella and Mitchell Guss where he trained in crystallography and small-angle scattering. As an NHRMC Early Career Fellow, he undertook his postdoc in Cambridge at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the group of Leo James. Here he developed his expertise in virology, publishing seminal structural work on the HIV capsid structure and its interactions with the host. In 2017, David established his own research group at UNSW. David collaborates strongly with single molecule imaging experts and virologists to integrate dynamics with structural biology thereby bringing a unique perspective to the treatment of fundamental questions in virology. His most recent research achievements include the revealing how the HIV capsid overcome the nuclear pore complex (Nature 2024) and solving the first crystal structures of the HTLV-1c capsid.