Peter George Shrager, Ph.D.

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Current Appointments

• Professor - Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy (SMD)
• Professor - Department of Pharmacology and Physiology (SMD)

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/

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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.