Graduate Student 2017-2022
After Mo Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSF (with Prof. Peter Turnbaugh)
Mo Lab Publications
Vrla, G. D.; Esposito, M.; Zhang, C.; Kang, Y.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R.; Gitai, Z. Cytotoxic Alkyl-quinolones Mediate Surface-induced Virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PLoS Pathog. 2020, 16, e1008867.
Yoshimura, A.; Covington, B. C.; Gallant, É.; Zhang, C.; Li, A.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R. Unlocking Cryptic Metabolites with Mass-Spectrometry-Guided Transposon Mutant Selection. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 2766-2774.
Zhang, C.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R. Discovery of a Cryptic Depsipeptide from Streptomyces ghanaensis via MALDI-MS-Guided High-Throughput Elicitor Screening. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23005-23009.
Zhang, C.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R. CanE, an Iron/2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Lasso Peptide Hydroxylase from Streptomyces canus. ACS Chem. Biol. 2020, 15, 890–894.
Moon, K.; Xu, F.; Zhang, C.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R. Bioactivity-HiTES Unveils Cryptic Antibiotics Encoded in Actinomycete Bacteria. ACS Chem. Biol. 2019, 14, 767–774.
Xu, F.; Wu, Y.; Zhang, C.; Davis, K. M.; Moon, K.; Bushin, L. B.; Seyedsayamdost, M. R. A Genetics-Free Method for High-Throughput Discovery of Cryptic Microbial Metabolites. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2019, 15, 161–168.
Awards
George B. Rathmann ’51 Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry (2018)