Peter Sarnow
PROFESSOR
Microbiology & Immunology
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
He is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology.He is a member of Bio-X, Child Health Research Institute,Stanford Cancer Institute.He is a Director of Graduate Program of Dept. Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine (2002 - Present).He is a Member of the Committee on Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2001 - 2004),School of Medicine Awards Committee, Stanford University School of Medicine (2005 - Present) and Chair of Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine (2010 - 2017)
Research Interest
unusual mechanism of translation initiation by internal ribosome entry in certain viral (i.e. HCV, picornavirsues and some insect viruses) and cellular mRNA molecules. I
Publications
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Sagan SM, Chahal J, Sarnow P. cis-Acting RNA elements in the hepatitis C virus RNA genome. Virus research. 2015 Aug 3;206:90-8.
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Marceau CD, Puschnik AS, Majzoub K, Ooi YS, Brewer SM, Fuchs G, Swaminathan K, Mata MA, Elias JE, Sarnow P, Carette JE. Genetic dissection of Flaviviridae host factors through genome-scale CRISPR screens. Nature. 2016 Jul;535(7610):159-63.
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Sarnow P, Sagan SM. Unraveling the mysterious interactions between hepatitis C virus RNA and liver-specific microRNA-122. Annual review of virology. 2016 Sep 29;3:309-32.
