Home Department: Department of Biochemistry

Email Address: mts7@illinois.edu

Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Emad Tajkhorshid


Education

Undergraduate Advisor: Dr. Adrian Elcock


Research Interests

  • Protein-lipid interactions
  • Small molecule discovery
  • Protein engineering
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Awards


Selected Publications

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K. A. Munoz, A. K. Vasan, M. Sinclair, P. Wen, J. R. Holmes, R. J. Ulrich, H. Y. Lee, C. Hung, C. J. Fields, E. Tajkhorshid, G. W. Lau, and P. Hergenrother (2023)
A gram-negative-selective antibiotic spares the gut microbiome and prevents Clostridoides difficile infection.
Science, in review.

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M. Sinclair, R. A. Stein, J. H. Sheehan, E. M. Hawes, R. M. O'Brien, E. Tajkhorshid, D. P. Claxton (2022)
Molecular mechanisms of functional impairment in active site mutations in glucose-6-phosphatase catalytic subunit 1 linked to glycogen storage disease type 1a.
bioarxiv, deposited.


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Monochromatic biology

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Metabolic thalassaphobia

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