Selena Sagan
Biography:
Dr. Selena M. Sagan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, and Associate Member of the Department of Biochemistry, 91社区. Dr. Sagan received her Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship training in Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University. Dr. Sagan is a Canada Research Chair in RNA Biology and Viral Infections and her laboratory studies positive-strand RNA viruses of the Flaviviridae family (including Hepatitis C virus, Dengue virus and Zika virus) as well as negative-strand RNA viruses (including Respiratory Syncytial Virus). The main focus of her research program is RNA-RNA and protein-RNA interactions at the host-virus interface.