Home Department: Department of Biochemistry

Email Address: mts7@illinois.edu

Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Emad Tajkhorshid


Education

Undergraduate Advisor: Dr. Adrian Elcock


Research Interests

  • Biophysical simulation
  • Small molecule discovery
  • Cheminformatics and machine learning
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Awards


Selected Publications

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K. A. Munoz, R. J. Ulrich, A. K. Vasan, M. Sinclair, P. Wen, J. R. Holmes, H. Y. Lee, C. Hung, C. J. Fields, E. Tajkhorshid, G. W. Lau, and P. Hergenrother (2024)
A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome.
Nature.

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M. Sinclair, R. A. Stein, J. H. Sheehan, E. M. Hawes, R. M. O'Brien, E. Tajkhorshid, D. P. Claxton (2024)
Integrative analysis of pathogenic variants in glucose-6-phosphatase based on an AlphaFold2 model.
PNAS Nexus.

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Q. Tang, M. Sinclair, H. S. Hasdemir, R. A. Stein, E. Karakas, E. Tajkhorshid, H. S. McHaourab (2023)
Asymmetric conformations and lipid interactions shape the ATP-coupled cycle of a heterodimeric ABC transporter.
Nature Communications.

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J. Zhang, ..., M. Sinclair, E. Tajkhorshid, et al. (2024)
WSB1/2 target chromatin-bound lysine-methylated RelA for proteasomal degradation and NF-κB termination.
Nucleic Acids Research.


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