Shana Elbaum

Research Associate
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
United States of America

Biography

Scientist Shana Elbaum is a Postdoctoral Research Associatein the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princinton university. She completed her PhD in Molecular biophysics and biochemistry in the year 2012 from Yale university.She is expert in Biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, c. elegans genetics, aging and development, protein assembly, neurodegeneration

Research Intrest

Biophysics, soft condensed matter physics, c. elegans genetics, aging and development, protein assembly, neurodegeneration

List of Publications
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Elizabeth Rhoades, 2012, Identification of an aggregation-prone structure of tau, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 16607-16613
Huaiying Zhang, Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Erin M Langdon, Nicole Taylor, Patricia Occhipinti, et.al, 2015, RNA controls PolyQ protein phase transitions, J. Molecular cell, 60,220-230
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle, Younghoon Kim, Krzysztof Szczepaniak, Carlos Chih-Hsiung Chen, Christian R Eckmann, et.al, 2015, The disordered P granule protein LAF-1 drives phase separation into droplets with tunable viscosity and dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 7189-7194