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 # Luque Lab News
 
+| [**Small viruses reveal bidirectional evolution between HK97-fold viruses and encapsulins via procapsids**](#small-viruses-reveal-bidirectional-evolution-between-hk97-fold-viruses-and-encapsulins-via-procapsids-2025-08-29) | August 29, 2025 |
+| First author **Abelardo Aguilar**, with **Antoni Luque** (PI) and **Omer Nadel**, shared on bioRxiv a manuscript that describes how small uncultured HK97-fold viruses bridge viruses and prokaryotic proteins, supporting bidirectional evolutionary transitions via procapsids. Their findings suggest that capsids in nature might have overlooked biochemical roles. Manuscript under **peer review at Nature Communications**. [bioRxiv](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.659913v3) | <img src="{{ '/assets/images/news/Small_viruses_reveal_bidir_evo_via_procapsids_QRCODE_Biorxiv.png' | relative_url }}" width="180"> |
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 | [**Graduate and Post-doctoral Research Symposium**](#graduate-and-post-doctoral-research-symposium-2025-03-25) | March 25, 2025 |
-| PhD student, [**Abelardo Aguilar**]({{ '/pages/team/#abelardo-aguilar' | relative_url }}) and postdocs, [**Omer Nadel**]({{ '/pages/team/#omer-nadel' | relative_url }}) and [**Michael Cioffi**]({{ '/pages/team/#michael-cioffi' | relative_url }}) represented the Luque lab at the 2025 University of Miami Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Symposium hosted in the Shalala Center. Abelardo displayed his work on finding the evolutionary connection between HK97 and encapsulins as a poster, while Omer and Mike delivered oral presentations highlighting their work on reconstructing small novel capsids and creating simulations of T=3 capsids, respectively. | <img src="{{ '/assets/images/news/2025-03-25_research_symposium.jpg' | relative_url }}" width="200" height="200"> |
+| PhD student, [**Abelardo Aguilar**]({{ '/pages/team/#abelardo-aguilar' | relative_url }}) and postdocs, [**Omer Nadel**]({{ '/pages/team/#omer-nadel' | relative_url }}) and [**Michael Cioffi**]({{ '/pages/team/#michael-cioffi' | relative_url }}) represented the Luque lab at the 2025 University of Miami Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Symposium hosted in the Shalala Center. Abelardo displayed his work on finding the evolutionary connection between HK97 and encapsulins as a poster, while Omer and Mike delivered oral presentations highlighting their work on reconstructing small novel capsids and creating simulations of T=3 capsids, respectively. | <img src="{{ '/assets/images/news/Small_viruses_reveal_bidir_evo_via_procapsids_QRCODE_Biorxiv.png' | relative_url }}" width="200" height="200"> |
 
 | [**Spanish Network of Physical Virology (BioFiViNet)**](#spanish-network-of-physical-virology-2025-03-20) | March 20, 2025 |
 | PI, [**Antoni Luque**]({{ '/pages/team/#antoni-luque' | relative_url }}) delivered the opening plenary at the VII Spanish Network of Physical Virology [BioFiViNet](https://sites.google.com/view/guzmanresearch/physvirspain), a network he helped establish in 2010 as a PhD student under Prof. Dr. David Reguera at the University of Barcelona, one of its initial organizers. | <img src="{{ '/assets/images/news/2025-03-21_BioFiNet_memoire.jpeg' | relative_url }}" width="400" height="200"> |