Jodi Hadden-Perilla, PhD: Grimes Lecturer

Date: Wednesday April 9, 2025

Time: Noon-1pm

Location: 1-125 CCRB

 

Short biography: Professor Hadden-Perilla is a computational chemist who uses multi-million-atom molecular dynamics simulations to inform on the assembly, structure, and functional properties of viruses. In a broader context, her work is also applicable to the study of protein cages and virus-like assemblies. Professor Hadden-Perilla joined theDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry (CBC) at University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in 2019, and now holds the C. Eugene Bennet Early Career Chair of Chemistry. She obtained her PhD in computational chemistry at the University of Georgia under the mentorship of Professor Robert Woods. She was a postdoctoral researcher withProfessor Klaus Schulten at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2014 to 2017. Before her appointment as an Assistant Professor, she was the Chair's Independent Postdoctoral fellow in CBC from 2017 to2019. In addition to her principal appointment, Professor Hadden-Perilla is an affiliated faculty member with the DataScience Institute and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Delaware.

 

*The Institute for Molecular Virology Advisory Committee has established this lecture to honor the memory of Shelley N. Grimes. A Minnesota native, Dr. Grimes received her BA from St. Olaf College and earned her PhD degree in Genetics at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of Dr. Dwight Anderson (School of Dentistry), who also served as her postdoctoral mentor. As a UMN faculty member, she collaborated with Dr. Paul Jardine in studies of the molecular mechanism of bacteriophage phi 29 DNA packaging.The topics in this recurring lecture include the general areas of virus assembly and bacteriophage biology.