News & Events

After a short administrative update, each meeting will include two Project updates (~ 45 mins / project) or 3 Core updates (25 mins / core). Each presentation is coordinated by the designated Project, Core, or CDP lead. The lead will consult with the PIs on their project/core and designate who will present and how the presentations will be constituted, preferably including a mix of senior and junior level presenters each month.

Teleconference meetings are held the 3rd Friday of each month at 10:00-11:30 AM PT.

2026

  • January 16 – Invited Speaker, Dr. Juan Perilla
  • February 5-6 – Winter F2F Meeting, Emory University
  • March 20 – Invited Speaker, Dr. Julio Aliberti
  • April 17 – Cores 1 & 2 Updates
  • May 15 – No Meeting
  • June 19 – No Meeting
  • July 2 – B-HIVE F2F Meeting (virtual)
  • August 21 – Project 1 Updates
  • September 18 – No Meeting
  • October 16 – Project 2 Updates
  • November 20 – Project 3 Updates
  • December 18 – No meeting, Happy Holidays!

2026 B-HIVE Summer Face-to-Face Meeting

The B-HIVE Summer Meeting was held virtually this year, on Thursday, July 2nd, 2026.

This year’s meeting was run similarly to our previous summer meetings, with 10-minute presentations by grad students, postdocs, junior faculty, and staff.  More information to follow soon.

B-HIVE Winter Face-to-Face Meeting

The 4th annual B-HIVE Winter F2F meeting was held on February 5-6, 2026 at the Emory Conference Center (Address:  1615 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30329;  Phone: 404-712-6000; https://www.emoryconferencecenter.com).

We held an in-person training workshop based on mass spec-related methods on the day before the main meeting.

We began with a welcome reception at Wisteria Lanes on Wednesday evening (7 – 10 pm), project and core presentations started Thursday morning, a Thursday poster session, and a breakout session and recap on Friday. Breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks and snacks were provided on Thursday and Friday, and dinner was provided on Thursday night. The meeting ended at 4 pm on Friday.

Day One Presentations:

  • Project 1 – Mamuka Kavaratskhelia and Stefan Sarafianos
  • Project 2 – Alan Engelman and Vinay Pathak
  • Project 3 – Wei-Shau Hu and Bruce Torbett
  • Core 1 – Greg Voth and Stefano Forli
  • Core 2 – Dmitry Lyumkis and Rob Dick
  • Core 3 – Greg Melikian, David Millar, and Karin Musier-Forsyth

Day Two Presentations:

  • Core 4 – Mary Kearney and Andrew Routh
  • Core 5 – Karen Kirby and Mia Faerch
  • CDP Awardees – Megan Ken, Ludovic Autin, and Charles Bou-Nader
  • Bart Staker – Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease

B-HIVE Winter Training Retreat

February 4, 2026

On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, we held an in-person training workshop led by Drs. Wei-Shau Hu and Alice Duchon (NIH), Megan Ken (Scripps), Karin Musier-Forsyth and Joe Kanlong (Ohio State).  The workshop began at 1pm, on the day prior to the B-HIVE Face-to-Face meeting.  A video recording of this workshop will be available by the end of March 2026.

Scheduled Talks

“RNA chemical probing and computational tools to interrogate RNA structures.” – Megan Ken and Joe Kanlong

“Biophysical characterization of RNA molecules in vitro.” – Karen Kirby, Megan Ken, and Joe Kanlong

“Strategies and applications for visualizing HIV-1 RNA.” – Wei-Shau Hu and Alice Duchon

“Probing RNA: Protein interactions in vitro and in cells.” – Karen Kirby and Megan Ken

“Characterizing mRNA translation in vitro and in cells.” – Megan Ken and Joe Kanlong

The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) hosted the annual HIV Structural Biology Meeting on Monday, June 29th and Tuesday, June 30th, 2026 virtually.  Invites were sent from NIAID to B-HIVE Center members only. Each Center presented research updates for 1 hour, as in past meetings.

The Latest Buzz

Congratulations to Guochun Jiang, PhD! His work was recently published in Cell Reports.

This study was partially supported by the Development Award from BHIVE, regarding epigenetic and genetic regulation of HIV latency in T cells and brain microglia.

The ENL-USP7 complex regulates HIV latency through BRD4 protein stabilization

Please join us in congratulating Greg Melikyan, PhD and Ashwanth Francis, PhD on their achievement!  Their work has been published on the front page of the August 2026 Viruses journal.

To read more about this exciting work, please follow the link:

Real-Time Imaging of HIV-1 Protease Activation and Substrate Cleavage in Single Virions Assembling on the Plasma Membrane

Congratulations to all three of our Year 5 CDP Awardees!

Our 2026 CDP awardees are: Alex Kleinpeter (University of Iowa), Clifton Ricana (Emory University), and Charles Bou-Nader (Emory University).  We look forward to your exiting contributions to the B-HIVE Center!

Buzz Archives

  • We are pleased to announce that Charles Bou-Nader, PhD, an Assistant Professor (Bou-Nader Lab), Department of Biochemistry, at Emory University, is our CDP recipient for 2025-2026. Proposed Study: Molecular basis of HIV-1 integration at R-loop structures.
  • We are delighted to share that Greg Voth, PhD, a Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor (Voth Group), Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, has been awarded the 2025 American Chemical Society National Theoretical Chemistry Award for his groundbreaking work in field of computational chemistry.
  • B-HIVE Center member Janet Iwasa, PhD was recently awarded the 2025 Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education from the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)!  This award is given to an individual who has demonstrated innovative and sustained contributions to science education, prioritizing the national impact of the nominee’s activities.
  • Please join us in celebrating the publishing of David Goodsell’s beautiful artwork in the September-October 2025 issue of American Scientist, an illustration of HIV budding.  September-October – 2025 – Volume: 113 – Number: 5 | American Scientist

  • Congratulations to Karin Musier-Forsyth, PhD!  She has been awarded the RNA Society / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award for 2026.
  • Congratulations to Megan Ken, MD, PhD! She has been promoted to Assistant Professor, tenure-track, at the Scripps Research Institute
  • Congratulations to Guochun Jiang, PhD! His work was recently published in Science Advances.