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Diwakar Shukla

Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and Faculty Affiliate in Chemistry

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Chemistry
Associate Professor, Center for Digital Agriculture, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Associate Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Chan, M. C., Alfawaz, Y., Paul, A., & Shukla, D. (2025). Molecular insights into the elevator-type mechanism of the cyanobacterial bicarbonate transporter BicA. Biophysical journal, 124(2), 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2024.12.013

Barrett, S. E., Yin, S., Jordan, P., Brunson, J. K., Gordon-Nunez, J., Costa Machado da Cruz, G., Rosario, C., Okada, B. K., Anderson, K., Pires, T. A., Wang, R., Shukla, D., Burk, M. J., & Mitchell, D. A. (Accepted/In press). Substrate interactions guide cyclase engineering and lasso peptide diversification. Nature chemical biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-024-01727-w

Chen, J., Dean, T. J., & Shukla, D. (2024). Contribution of Signaling Partner Association to Strigolactone Receptor Selectivity. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(3), 698-705. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06940

Clark, J. D., Mi, X., Mitchell, D. A., & Shukla, D. (Accepted/In press). Substrate prediction for RiPP biosynthetic enzymes via masked language modeling and transfer learning. Digital Discovery. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dd00170b

Kim, K., Bansal, P. D., & Shukla, D. (2024). Cyclopamine modulates smoothened receptor activity in a binding position dependent manner. Communications biology, 7(1), Article 1207. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06906-y

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