Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics Seminar Series: Sam Sternberg

Description

Sam Sternberg, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University, will give a talk titled "De Novo Gene Synthesis by an Antiviral Reverse Transcriptase" as part of the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics Seminar Series.

Abstract:

The central dogma of molecular biology states that genetic information flows from DNA and RNA to protein, with reverse transcription converting RNA to DNA. In the pursuit of understanding how bacteria defend themselves from viral infection, two groups of investigators have found alternative pathways to making genes from RNA that did not previously encode proteins.