Dr Miguel Hernandez Gonzalez

Miguel studies how large DNA viruses assemble inside infected cells and how their structure enables infectivity.

Miguel graduated in Biology from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He completed his PhD at the Spanish National Research Council, where he investigated membrane trafficking and Golgi apparatus organisation under the supervision of Miguel Peñalva. In 2018, he worked on clathrin and membrane trafficking during a short stay with Stephen Royle at the University of Warwick. In 2019, he joined The Francis Crick Institute in Michael Way’s lab, collaborating with the group of Peter Rosenthal, where he combined cell biology and cryo-electron tomography to study host-poxvirus interactions and virus assembly. His research focuses on uncovering how large DNA viruses co-opt host membranes to build infectious virions.