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Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of California, San Francisco

B.S. in Biochemistry, Loyola Marymount University

Courses Taught

Chem 117: Introductory Chemistry

Chem 240: Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Chem 260: Nutrition and Metabolism: Biochemical Mechanisms

Chem 300: Protein Biochemistry

Chem 370: Advanced Topics: Drugs and Disease

Research Interests

protein folding and misfolding, bacterial stress response

Publications

Two distinct classes of cochaperones compete for the EEVD motif in heat shock protein 70 to tune its chaperone activities. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.101697.

The interactions of molecular chaperones with client proteins: why are they so weak? Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101282.

Functional genomics screen identifies proteostasis targets that modulate prion protein (PrP) stability. Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s12192-021-01191-8.

Protein-protein interactions in the molecular chaperone network. Accounts of Chemical Research, 2018. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00036.

For a complete list of publications, see Google Scholar profile.

Taylor Arhar

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Pronouns: she/her/hers Email: arhart@beloit.edu Phone: 608-363-2098 Office: Room 416, Sanger Center for the Sciences