Michael Josiah Collazo

Manager
X-ray Crystallography Condition Screening Core Technology Center

I joined the institute in June of 2012. This is a great community to be a part of and I am proud to be here. Each year we continue finding new ways to advance our motivated researchers, and push forward with new technologies and methods. I manage operations in the crystallization and x-ray crystallography cores while supporting the computer graphics core as needed. I am enrolled full time in Washington State University’s Carson School of Business and expect to finish my MBA in 2019.

Publications

Mustafa Ugur Daloglu, Aniruddha Ray, Michael J. Collazo, Calvin Brown, Derek Tseng, Blanca Chocarro-Ruiz, Laura M. Lechuga, Duilio Cascio & Aydogan Ozcan. (2019). Low-cost and portable UV holographic microscope for high-contrast protein crystal imaging. APL Photonics. 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5080158

Chen, Wenyang & Mandali, Sridhar & Hancock, Stephen & Kumar, Pramod & Collazo, Michael & Cascio, Duilio & C Johnson, Reid. (2018). Multiple serine transposase dimers assemble the transposon-end synaptic complex during IS607-family transposition. eLife. 7. 10.7554/elife.39611.

Irina V. Novikova, Noopur Sharma, Trevor Moser, Ryan Sontag, Yan Liu, Michael J. Collazo, Duilio Cascio, Tolou Shokuhfar, Hanjo Hellmann, Michael Knoblauch, James E. Evans
“Protein Structural Biology Using Cell-Free Platform from Wheat Germ.” BioRx. July 23, 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/375188

Michael R. Sawaya, Jose Rodriguez, Duilio Cascio, Michael J. Collazo, Dan Shi, Francis E. Reyes, Johan Hattne, Tamir Gonen, and David S. Eisenberg
“Ab initio structure determination from prion nanocrystals at atomic resolution by MicroED.”
PNAS 2016 113 (40) 11232-11236; published ahead of print September 19, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1606287113

Jeffery M Vinokur, Tyler P Korman, Michael R Sawaya, Michael J Collazo, Duilio Cascio, and James U Bowie
“Structural analysis of mevalonate-3-kinase provides insight into the mechanisms of isoprenoid pathway decarboxylases.”
Protein Sci. (2015) 24: 212-220

Michael J Collazo, Soheila Vaezeslami, and Sarah Burl
“Improving the crystallization process for optimal drug development.”
American Laboratory. March 28, 2014.

Ahmed Awad, Michael J Collazo, Kate Carpio, Christina Flores, and Thomas C Bruice
“A convenient synthesis of the cytidyl 3′-terminal monomer for solid-phase synthesis of RNG oligonucleotides.”
Tetrahedron Letters. Vol. 53 No. 29 2012 Jul 18, 2012. 3792–3794

Deposits

Crystal structure of the Shr Hemoglobin Interacting Domain 2 (2018)

Structure of NNQQNY from yeast prion Sup35 with zinc acetate determined by MicroED (2016)

Structure of NNQQNY from yeast prion Sup35 with cadmium acetate determined by MicroED (2016)

Structure of GNNQQNY from yeast prion Sup35 in space group P21 determined by MicroED (2016)

Structure of GNNQQNY from yeast prion Sup35 in space group P212121 determined by MicroED (2016)

Crystal structure of rescued two-component self-assembling tetrahedral cage T33-31 (2015)

Crystal Structure of Proteinase K from Engyodontium albuminhibited by METHOXYSUCCINYL-ALA-ALA-PRO-PHE-CHLOROMETHYL KETONE at 1.15 A resolution (2015)

Crystal Structure of Mevalonate-3-Kinase from Thermoplasma acidophilum (apo form) (2014)

Crystal Structure of Mevalonate-3-Kinase from Thermoplasma acidophilum (Mevalonate Bound) (2014)

Crystal Structure of Mevalonate-3-Kinase from Thermoplasma acidophilum (Mevalonate 3-Phosphate/ADP Bound) (2014)