Ammar Zafar, Ph.D.
Email: mzafar@princeton.edu
Education:
B.Sc. Biology
Government College Lahore (University), Pakistan, 2002
B.S. Biology, Magna cum laude
SUNY Brockport, 2004
Ph.D., Biological Sciences
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2009
Publications:
Zafar, M.A., N. Sanchez-Alberola, and R.E. Wolf, Jr. (2011) Genetic evidence for a novel interaction between transcriptional activator SoxS and region 4 of the σ70 subunit of RNA polymerase at class II SoxS-dependent promoters in Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol. In press.
Zafar, M.A., I.M. Shah, and R.E. Wolf, Jr. (2010) Protein-protein interactions between σ70 region 4 of RNA polymerase and Escherichia coli SoxS, a transcription activator that functions by the prerecruitment mechanism: Evidence for "Off-DNA" and "On-DNA" interactions. J. Mol. Biol. In press.