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Lara K MahalPrinter Friendly Printer Friendly

; Associate Professor of Chemistry
B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz, Phi Beta Kappa Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellow, Sloan-Kettering Institute

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Personal Homepage: http://research.cm.utexas.edu/lmahal/

Research Interests:

Chemical Biology, Glycomics, Molecular Recognition, Organic Chemistry.

Fellowships/Honors:

University of California, Regents Scholar (1993-1995), ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Predoctoral Fellow (1998-1999), Jane Coffin Childs Cancer Research Fellow (2000-2003), Beckman Young Investigator (2004-2007), NSF-CAREER Award (2007-present), Sloan Foundation Fellow (2008-present), NIH Director's Innovator Award (2008-present).

Selected Works:

Hsu, K.-L.; Gildersleeve, J.C.; Mahal, L.K. A simple strategy for the creation of a recombinant lectin microarray, Mol. BioSystems, 2008, 4, 654-662.

Mahal, L.K.  Glycomics: Towards Bioinformatic Approaches to Understanding Glycosylation, Anti-Cancer Agents Med. Chem. 2008, 8, 37-51.

Pilobello, K.T.; Slawek, D.; Mahal, L.K.  A ratiometric lectin microarray approach to analysis of the dynamic mammalian glycome, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA, 2007, 104, 10534-10539.

Carrillo, L.D.; Krishnamoorthy, L.; Mahal, L.K. A Cellular FRET Sensor for β-O-GlcNAc, a Dynamic Carbohydrate Modification Involved in Signaling, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 14768-14769.

Hsu, K.-L.; Pilobello, K.T; Mahal, L.K.  Analyzing the dynamic bacterial glycome with a lectin microarray approach.  Nat. Chem. Biol.  2006, 2, 153-157.

Sanki, A.; Mahal, L.K.  A One-Step Synthesis of Azide-Tagged Carbohydrates: Versatile Intermediates for Glycotechnology. Synlett  2006, 3, 455-459.

Pilobello, K.T.; Krishnamoorthy, L.; Slawek, D.; Mahal, L.K.  Development of a Lectin Microarray for the Rapid Analysis of Protein Glycopatterns.  ChemBioChem  2005, 6, 985-989.

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