Convergence Seminar
Willow Coyote-Maestas, PhD
As an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow and a QBI Fellow, Willow is inventing high-throughput sequencing-based biophysics and biochemistry methods for understanding how a genetic, chemical, or physical perturbation alters the trafficking or functional state of receptors. The long-term goal of this work is to build mechanistic holistic models of how receptors break in disease and work in normal physiology.
Willow graduated from the Evergreen State College with degrees in chemistry and environmental studies. As an undergraduate in Anitra Ingalls’s lab at the University of Washington, he studied how B vitamins mediate microbial interactions and diversity in the open ocean. For graduate school, Willow did his PhD in Daniel Schmidt’s lab at the University of Minnesota, where he developed massively parallel sequencing-based methods to study and engineer proteins. Using mutational and insertional scanning methods, Willow found these methods can be useful for identifying regions of a protein involved in functionally meaningful conformational changes, developed mechanistic models for how to assemble protein domains to create useful multi-domain protein tools, and studied the evolution of ion channel regulation.
Hosted by: Vijay Ramani, PhD
Details
Dates
October 12, 2022Time
11:00am-12:00pm PDTLocation
Online & Mahley AuditoriumAudience
Gladstone and UCSFContact(s)
The Convergence Seminar is organized by Gladstone’s Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology. This seminar series brings together scientists from varying disciplines to solve complex scientific questions and accelerate the path to cures.
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