Peter George Shrager, Ph.D.

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Contact

University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 603
Rochester, New York 14642

Portrait

Current Appointments

Education
PhD Biophysics Univ of Cal Berkeley 1969
BS Electrical Engineering Columbia University 1963
Post-Doctoral Training & Residency
Molecular Biology, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 1995
Physiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 1969 - 1971
Fellowship Awards
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, Durham, NC. 1969 - 1971
NIH Predoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. 1967 - 1969
NIH Biophysics Training Grant Fellow, University of California, Berkeley. 1964 - 1966

Lab Website

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/Shrager-Lab/


Recent Journal Articles
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Schafer DP; Custer AW; Shrager P; Rasband MN. "Early events in node of Ranvier formation during myelination and remyelination in the PNS." Neuron glia biology. 2006; 2(2):69-79.
Xu X; Shrager P. "Dependence of axon initial segment formation on Na+ channel expression." Journal of neuroscience research. 2005; 79(4):428-41.
Taveggia C; Zanazzi G; Petrylak A; Yano H; Rosenbluth J; Einheber S; Xu X; Esper RM; Loeb JA; Shrager P; Chao MV; Falls DL; Role L; Salzer JL. "Neuregulin-1 type III determines the ensheathment fate of axons." Neuron. 2005; 47(5):681-94.
Chen C; Westenbroek RE; Xu X; Edwards CA; Sorenson DR; Chen Y; McEwen DP; O'Malley HA; Bharucha V; Meadows LS; Knudsen GA; Vilaythong A; Noebels JL; Saunders TL; Scheuer T; Shrager P; Catterall WA; Isom LL. "Mice lacking sodium channel beta1 subunits display defects in neuronal excitability, sodium channel expression, and nodal architecture." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2004; 24(16):4030-42.
Poliak S; Salomon D; Elhanany H; Sabanay H; Kiernan B; Pevny L; Stewart CL; Xu X; Chiu SY; Shrager P; Furley AJ; Peles E. "Juxtaparanodal clustering of Shaker-like K+ channels in myelinated axons depends on Caspr2 and TAG-1." The Journal of cell biology. 2003; 162(6):1149-60. Epub 2003 Sep 08.