
Mac Kevin Braza
@mackevinbraza
Ph.D. student in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at @RommieAmaro Lab @UCSanDiego
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For #SeeingDiversity, we’re featuring Dr. Sonya Neal Sonya Neal! Sonya’s lab explores the role of the rhomboid superfamily in vast membrane-related processes and how their dysregulation leads to disease. This illustration by Rachel Torrez shows the multiscale means her lab uses.






Today in Science Magazine we report how lipids specialize for life under the crushing pressures of the deep sea and what this means more broadly for the composition of cell membranes (1/n) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Delighted to share that I will be speaking this Friday, June 28, 6PM Pacific time as one of the recipient of the UP Alumni Assoc in America (UPAAA) scholarship. They are instrumental in my success as a PhD student in UC San Diego. University of the Philippines 🇵🇭 😁




Certain enzymes play a crucial role in our body's inflammatory immune response, and now researchers from UCSD Chem Biochem have reported on the selectivity of these enzymes in macrophage cells, revealing new insights in treating disease. bit.ly/3W5SXrC



New article just published. This work on small molecule p53 reactivators was in the making for almost a decade. Thanks to Maryam Fallatah, Ambuj Srivastava, PhD, Prof Peter Kaiser and all contributors. mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/b…

In our new study out in Nature Communications, co-led by Xandra Nuqui and myself, in collab. w/ Jason McLellan & Kartik Chandran, we designed a 2W-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 S2 antigen exhibiting enhanced expression and preserved immunogenicity against sarbecoviruses. 👉 nature.com/articles/s4146…





Thrilled to be amongst this cohort of exceptional scientists receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)!!!! U.S. National Science Foundation #NSFCAREER #PECASE whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

#HighlightOfTheWeek APOBEC3B (A3B) dynamics from classical molecular dynamics simulations. A3B is implicated in DNA mutations that facilitate tumor evolution. Rommie Amaro Mac Kevin Braza Ozlem Dmr Carla Calvó-Tusell Lorenzo Casalino #compchem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…