Samuel Sternberg: RNA-guided and RNA-templated antiviral immunity

Samuel Sternberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research there as well.

The Sternberg Lab broadly strives to expand our understanding of how noncoding RNAs interact with effector proteins to target DNA. The research focuses on evolutionarily distinct yet analogous systems in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The researchers employ a combination of biochemistry, structural biology, biophysics, and genetics. Their research group is uncovering new biological functions and advancing novel tools for precisely manipulating the genome.

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