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Yuxin Mao is a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University, and a member of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. He received his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nankai University in China, followed by a Ph.D. in Structural Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral research at Yale University School of Medicine, where he was awarded the HHMI postdoctoral fellowship from the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Dr. Mao's laboratory specializes in studying the molecular mechanisms of pathogen-host interactions, with a specific focus on the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially fatal form of pneumonia. His recent research emphasizes the exploration of Legionella effectors that hijack eukaryotic cellular processes, concentrating on mechanisms of ubiquitination and regulation of the actin cytoskeleton in host cells. Dr. Mao collaborates with Dr. Scott Emr at Cornell, investigating the roles of specific di-ubiquitination E3 adaptors in the molecular architecture of the di-ubiquitinated adaptor-E3 complex.
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