Outreach and Education

The APHA Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest and most influential yearly gathering of public health professionals, bringing the public health community together to experience robust scientific programming, networking, social events, poster sessions and more.

The video Fighting Coronavirus with Soap by Maria Voigt was selected to be screened along with other films and PSAs in the COVID-19 session on October 27.

The video has been viewed more than 450,000 times since its release on March 18, 2020.

Always use soap when you wash your hands! Soap molecules break up the outer layer of enveloped viruses, stopping infection. Watch at the molecular level how soap breaks up coronavirus by using series of hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions..

Our neurons use electrical impulses and complex molecular machinery to communicate information throughout our bodies. In order to be ready to transfer the signal when it arrives, the neurons need to maintain high concentrations of sodium on the outside of the membrane and potassium ions on the inside. With each signal transmission, sodium enters the neuron followed by potassium exiting the cell. The new PDB-101 video Neuronal Signaling and Sodium-Potassium Pump illustrates how the key protein work together to regulate these processes.

Using Nanome software, people can meet in virtual reality and explore molecular data loaded from the PDB.
Recently, biocurator Gregg Crichlow met with Steve McCloskey went inside Nanome to explore two key complexes that could help researchers identify and develop effective therapeutics: the spike protein bound to its receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), and the spike protein bound to antibodies. Read more about the visit.