Maybelle Go

Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at National University of Singapore. Current research is on elucidating enzyme function and mechanism.

Specialties: Experience in using various instruments (UV-Vis spectrophotometer, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry); knowledge in biochemistry (enzyme kinetics, enzyme inhibition, SDS-PAGE, protein expression in E. coli); and good understanding of organic chemistry (structure elucidation) and molecular biology (PCR, cloning).

Education

• PhD University at Buffalo (2004 — 2009)
• BS Ateneo de Manila University (1998 — 2002)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Ateneo de Manila University (1998 — 2002)

Companies

• Research Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2020)
• Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2014 — 2019)
• Research Fellow National University of Singapore (2009 — 2013)
• Graduate Student University at Buffalo (2004 — 2009)

Skills

The most important

• HPLC
• Biochemistry
• Protein Expression

Other

Fluorescence Spectroscopy, UV/Vis, NMR, Mass Spectrometry

Recent Publications

1. Go, MK; Zhao, LN; Xue, B; Supekar, S; Robinson, RC; Fan, H; Yew, WS. Directed Computational Evolution of Quorum-Quenching Lactonases from the Amidohydrolase Superfamily. Structure. 2020, 28 (6), 635–642.E3.
2. Chua, JPS; Go, MK; Osothprarop, T; Mcdonald, S; Karabadzhak, AG; Yew, WS; Peisajovich, S; Nirantar, S. Evolving a Thermostable Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase. ACS Synth Biol. 2020, 9 (7), 1725–1735.
3. Liow, LT; Go, MK; Chang, MW; Yew, WS. Toolkit Development for Cyanogenic and Gold Biorecovery Chassis Chromobacterium violaceum. ACS Synth Biol. 2020, 9 (4), 953–961.
4. Yew, WS; Liow, LT; Go, M. Characterization of Constitutive Promoters from the Anderson library in Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC 12472. Engineering Biology. 2019.