Roberto Efrain Diaz, PhD
DEIA Program Manager
HDF Comprehensive Cancer Ctr
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Chancellor's Edison T. Uno Award for Public Service, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
• Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Excellence in Leadership and Activism Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2022
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
• TETRAD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Spotlight Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2021
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study, University of California, San Francisco, 2019-2022
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2018-2023

Education & Training

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• PhD Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of California, San Francisco 05/2023
• Bachelor of Science Neuroscience University of Miami 05/2017

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Molecular Docking SimulationHair FollicleHarmful Algal BloomInterleukin-13SymbiosisCatalytic DomainChitinDinoflagellidaViral Nonstructural ProteinsNeurotoxinsMitesMite InfestationsProtein BindingChitinasesSolubility

• Structural characterization of ligand binding and pH-specific enzymatic activity of mouse Acidic Mammalian Chitinase.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Díaz RE, Ecker AK, Correy GJ, Asthana P, Young ID, Faust B, Thompson MC, Seiple IB, Van Dyken SJ, Locksley RM, Fraser JS
• Innate type 2 immunity controls hair follicle commensalism by Demodex mites.
  Immunity 2022 Ricardo-Gonzalez RR, Kotas ME, O'Leary CE, Singh K, Damsky W, Liao C, Arouge E, Tenvooren I, Marquez DM, Schroeder AW, Cohen JN, Fassett MS, Lee J, Daniel SG, Bittinger K, Díaz RE, Fraser JS, Ali N, …
• Fragment binding to the Nsp3 macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2 identified through crystallographic screening and computational docking.
  Science advances 2021 Schuller M, Correy GJ, Gahbauer S, Fearon D, Wu T, Díaz RE, Young ID, Carvalho Martins L, Smith DH, Schulze-Gahmen U, Owens TW, Deshpande I, Merz GE, Thwin AC, Biel JT, Peters JK, Moritz M, Herrera N,…
• Fragment Binding to the Nsp3 Macrodomain of SARS-CoV-2 Identified Through Crystallographic Screening and Computational Docking.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2020 Schuller M, Correy GJ, Gahbauer S, Fearon D, Wu T, Díaz RE, Young ID, Martins LC, Smith DH, Schulze-Gahmen U, Owens TW, Deshpande I, Merz GE, Thwin AC, Biel JT, Peters JK, Moritz M, Herrera N, …
• Differences in the chitinolytic activity of mammalian chitinases on soluble and insoluble substrates.
  Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 2020 Barad BA, Liu L, Diaz RE, Basilio R, Van Dyken SJ, Locksley RM, Fraser JS
• Neurological illnesses associated with Florida red tide (Karenia brevis) blooms.
  Harmful algae 2019 Diaz RE, Friedman MA, Jin D, Beet A, Kirkpatrick B, Reich A, Kirkpatrick G, Ullmann SG, Fleming LE, Hoagland P