Contact Information

You can visit our laboratory, which is located at:

Public Health Research Institute
New Jersey Medical School - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Department of Molecular Genetics, Third floor - West Wing
225 Warren Street
Newark, New Jersey 07103
www.phri.org

If you need directions to our Institute, you can click this link
and Google Maps will help you.

For inquiries on the molecular beacon licensing program, you can contact

Fred Russell Kramer, Ph.D.

Tel: 1-973-854-3370

Fax: 1-973-854-3371

fred.kramer@umdnj.edu

For inquiries on molecular beacon applications, molecular beacon design,
and molecular beacon synthesis, you can contact

Sanjay Tyagi, Ph.D.	Salvatore A.E. Marras, Ph.D.
Tel: 1-973-854-3372	Tel: 1-973-854-3373
Fax: 1-973-854-3374	Fax: 1-973-854-3374
tyagisa@umdnj.edu	marrassa@umdnj.edu

Members of the Department of Molecular Genetics

Mona Batish	1-973-854-3378	batishmo@umdnj.edu
Fred Russell Kramer	1-973-854-3370	fred.kramer@umdnj.edu
Mike Levandoski	1-973-854-3378	levandmi@umdnj.edu
Salvatore A.E. Marras	1-973-854-3373	marrassa@umdnj.edu
Khyati Girish Shah	1-973-854-3375	kgs6@njit.edu
Sanjay Tyagi	1-973-854-3372	tyagisa@umdnj.edu
Diana Y. Vargas	1-973-854-3375	vargasdy@umdnj.edu
Wei Yang	1-973-854-3378	yangw2@umdnj.edu

Collaborators

David Alland	1-973-972-2179	allandda@umdnj.edu
Diana P. Bratu	1-212-772-5235	bratu@genectr.hunter.cuny.edu
Hiyam El-Hajj		elhajjhi@aol.com
Barry Kreiswirth	1-973-854-3240	kreiswba@umdnj.edu
Qingge Li	+86 592 2182100	qgli@xmu.edu.cn
Paul M. Lizardi	1-203-785-5107	paul.lizardi@yale.edu
David S. Perlin	1-973-854-3200	perlinds@umdnj.edu
Steven Park	1-973-854-3203	parkst@umdnj.edu
Jacqueline A.M. Vet	+ 31 (0) 24-3528831	jacqueline.vet@nytor.nl
Larry J. Wangh	1-781-736-3110	wangh@brandeis.edu

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Recent Publications

In the February issue of Bioconjugate Chemistry, we report the development of luminescent probes for the detection of nucleic acids

Krasnoperov LN, Marras SAE, Kozlov M, Wirpsza L, and Mustaev A (2010) Luminescent probes for ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids. Bioconjugate Chemistry 21, 319 - 327.

In collaboration with our colleagues Soumitesh Chakravorty and David Alland, we developed an assay which utilizes sloppy molecular beacon probes for the identification of more than 110 different pathogenic bacterial genotypes

Chakravorty S, Aladegbami B, Burday M, Levi M, Marras SAE, Shah D, El-Hajj HH, Kramer FR, and Alland D (2010) Rapid universal diagnosis of bacterial pathogens from clinical cultures using a novel sloppy molecular beacon melting temperature signature technique. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 48, 258-267.