User:Matthew A Davis
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- Matthew A Davis
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Email me through OpenWetWare
I work in the Wong Lab at the University of Illinois. I learned about OpenWetWare from iGEM, and I've joined because of a general interest in synthetic biology.
Education
- 2009, BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Molecular and Cellular Biology, minor in Chemistry
Research interests
- synthetic biology!
- RNA
- lipid membranes
Publications
- Yang L, Gordon VD, Trinkle DR, Schmidt NW, Davis MA, DeVries C, Som A, Cronan JE Jr, Tew GN, and Wong GC. Mechanism of a prototypical synthetic membrane-active antimicrobial: Efficient hole-punching via interaction with negative intrinsic curvature lipids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Dec 30;105(52):20595-600. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0806456105 |
- Yang L, Gordon VD, Mishra A, Som A, Purdy KR, Davis MA, Tew GN, and Wong GC. Synthetic antimicrobial oligomers induce a composition-dependent topological transition in membranes. J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Oct 10;129(40):12141-7. DOI:10.1021/ja072310o |
