Professor Dr. Naima Sharaf

Biography

Naima Gabriela Sharaf graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and earned her Ph.D. in Dr. Angela Gronenborn's lab at the University of Pittsburgh, where she investigated inhibitor-induced conformational changes in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase using fluorine solution NMR. She completed her postdoctoral training at Caltech in Dr. Doug Rees' lab, where she utilized x-ray crystallography and single-particle cryo-electron microscopy to characterize the structure and function of the Neisseria meningitidis methionine ABC transport system. Dr. Sharaf's current research interests involve lipoproteins, specifically their roles in bacterial physiology and potential vaccine design. The Sharaf Lab focuses on research that bridges biochemistry, biology, microbiology, and immunology, with an aim to translate lipoprotein research into therapeutics.

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