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   Salvatore Marras, PHD

Assistant Professor-Research

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Overview

Salvatore Marras received his B.S. degree in biotechnology, and received his doctoral degree in molecular genetics from the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in the laboratory of Professor Hans J. Tanke, who is a pioneer in the nucleic acid hybridization field.

The focus of his research has been the development of fluorogenic probes for nucleic acid detection in amplification reactions, and in live and fixed cells. He contributed to molecular beacons technology by establishing the thermodynamic parameters for their design, by studying the mechanism of fluorescence energy transfer between their labels, and by developing wavelength-shifting molecular beacons. In addition, he has co-authored more than twenty publications that describe the detection and identification of pathogens and genotypes using nucleic acid amplification methods that utilize single nucleotide polymorphism specific molecular beacons, mismatch tolerant molecular beacons, and / or sloppy molecular beacons.

Education

PHD, 2003, Leiden, The Netherlands, Not Available
BS, 1994, Niejmegen, The Netherlands, Not Available