The CryoEM@NOVA team invited today the Chemistry Department  to participate in an open lecture by Dr. Himanshu Sharma from Umeå University:

 "Cryo-EM unravels mysteries of hibernation and host cell invasion by microsporidian parasites"

About Himanshu Sharma, Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umea University:

Himanshu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umea University. He investigates the infection mechanisms of viruses and obligate eukaryotic parasites using biochemical and structural methods. Before his stay at Umea, Himanshu did his engineering studies, followed by a PhD. During his PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, he focused on investigating ribosome biogenesis in prokaryotes using biochemical and transcriptomic methods. His works have been funded by the MSCA postdoctoral fellowship and the National doctoral fellowship.