I am a PhD student in Assistant professor Max Renner's lab at the Department of Chemistry, studying the replication machinery of pneumo- and henipaviruses using cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM).
My work is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms behind the functioning of the replication machinery in these viruses. To achieve this, I will employ recombinant protein expression systems to produce the protein components of the viral machinery and characterize them using cryo-EM and other biochemical methods.
I graduated with an MSc in Biochemistry and Structural Biology in June 2022 from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
2026
Science Advances, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2026, Vol. 12, (20)
Jayachandran, Rupesh Balaji; Quignon, Erwan; Renner, Max