Willow Coyote-Maestas, PhD, MS

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
SchoolSchool of Pharmacy
Address1700 4th Street, #403E
San Francisco CA 94158
PronounsHe/Him/His
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0001-9614-5340 Additional info
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    The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WABS06/2014Chemistry
    The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WABA06/2014Environmental Studies
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MNMS11/2019Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MNPhD01/2021Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics
    Collapse Awards and Honors
    National Science Foundation2013  - 2014All Nations Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation in STEM
    National Science Foundation2017  - 2018Graduate Research Fellowship
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute2018  - 2021Gilliam Fellow
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities2019Ross A. Gortner Research Award
    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities2020Milne-Brandenbrug Research Award
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute2021  - 2027Hanna Gray Fellow
    Quantitative Biology Institute2021  - 2023Fellow
    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub 2023  - 2028Investigator

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    1. Molecular basis of proton sensing by G protein-coupled receptors. Cell. 2024 Dec 26. Howard MK, Hoppe N, Huang XP, Mitrovic D, Billesbølle CB, Macdonald CB, Mehrotra E, Rockefeller Grimes P, Trinidad DD, Delemotte L, English JG, Coyote-Maestas W, Manglik A. PMID: 39753132.
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    2. Mapping kinase domain resistance mechanisms for the MET receptor tyrosine kinase via deep mutational scanning. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 05. Estevam GO, Linossi EM, Rao J, Macdonald CB, Ravikumar A, Chrispens KM, Capra JA, Coyote-Maestas W, Pimentel H, Collisson EA, Jura N, Fraser JS. PMID: 39071407; PMCID: PMC11275805.
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    3. Using multiplexed functional data to reduce variant classification inequities in underrepresented populations. Genome Med. 2024 Dec 03; 16(1):143. Dawood M, Fayer S, Pendyala S, Post M, Kalra D, Patterson K, Venner E, Muffley LA, Fowler DM, Rubin AF, Posey JE, Plon SE, Lupski JR, Gibbs RA, Starita LM, Robles-Espinoza CD, Coyote-Maestas W, Gallego Romero I. PMID: 39627863; PMCID: PMC11616159.
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    4. A Suite of Foundation Models Captures the Contextual Interplay Between Codons. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 13. Naghipourfar M, Chen S, Howard MK, Macdonald CB, Saberi A, Hagen T, Mofrad MRK, Coyote-Maestas W, Goodarzi H. PMID: 39416097; PMCID: PMC11482952.
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    5. Conserved regulatory motifs in the juxtamembrane domain and kinase N-lobe revealed through deep mutational scanning of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase domain. Elife. 2024 Sep 13; 12. Estevam GO, Linossi EM, Macdonald CB, Espinoza CA, Michaud JM, Coyote-Maestas W, Collisson EA, Jura N, Fraser JS. PMID: 39268701; PMCID: PMC11398868.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 5     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    6. Deep mutational scanning of EccD3 reveals the molecular basis of its essentiality in the mycobacterium ESX secretion system. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 24. Trinidad DD, Macdonald CB, Rosenberg OS, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W. PMID: 39229178; PMCID: PMC11370616.
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    7. Rosace: a robust deep mutational scanning analysis framework employing position and mean-variance shrinkage. Genome Biol. 2024 05 24; 25(1):138. Rao J, Xin R, Macdonald C, Howard MK, Estevam GO, Yee SW, Wang M, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W, Pimentel H. PMID: 38789982; PMCID: PMC11127319.
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    8. Conserved regulatory motifs in the juxtamembrane domain and kinase N-lobe revealed through deep mutational scanning of the MET receptor tyrosine kinase domain. bioRxiv. 2024 May 06. Estevam GO, Linossi EM, Macdonald CB, Espinoza CA, Michaud JM, Coyote-Maestas W, Collisson EA, Jura N, Fraser JS. PMID: 37577651; PMCID: PMC10418267.
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    9. The full spectrum of SLC22 OCT1 mutations illuminates the bridge between drug transporter biophysics and pharmacogenomics. Mol Cell. 2024 May 16; 84(10):1932-1947.e10. Yee SW, Macdonald CB, Mitrovic D, Zhou X, Koleske ML, Yang J, Buitrago Silva D, Rockefeller Grimes P, Trinidad DD, More SS, Kachuri L, Witte JS, Delemotte L, Giacomini KM, Coyote-Maestas W. PMID: 38703769; PMCID: PMC11382353.
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    10. Molecular basis of proton-sensing by G protein-coupled receptors. bioRxiv. 2024 Apr 18. Howard MK, Hoppe N, Huang XP, Macdonald CB, Mehrota E, Grimes PR, Zahm A, Trinidad DD, English J, Coyote-Maestas W, Manglik A. PMID: 38659943; PMCID: PMC11042331.
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    11. Defining and Reducing Variant Classification Disparities. medRxiv. 2024 Apr 12. Dawood M, Fayer S, Pendyala S, Post M, Kalra D, Patterson K, Venner E, Muffley LA, Fowler DM, Rubin AF, Posey JE, Plon SE, Lupski JR, Gibbs RA, Starita LM, Robles-Espinoza CD, Coyote-Maestas W, Gallego Romero I. PMID: 38645101; PMCID: PMC11030469.
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    12. Profiling the proximal proteome of the activated μ-opioid receptor. Nat Chem Biol. 2024 Sep; 20(9):1133-1143. Polacco BJ, Lobingier BT, Blythe EE, Abreu N, Khare P, Howard MK, Gonzalez-Hernandez AJ, Xu J, Li Q, Novy B, Naing ZZC, Shoichet BK, Coyote-Maestas W, Levitz J, Krogan NJ, Von Zastrow M, Hüttenhain R. PMID: 38528119; PMCID: PMC11365811.
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    13. The full spectrum of OCT1 (SLC22A1) mutations bridges transporter biophysics to drug pharmacogenomics. bioRxiv. 2023 Jun 07. Yee SW, Macdonald C, Mitrovic D, Zhou X, Koleske ML, Yang J, Silva DB, Grimes PR, Trinidad D, More SS, Kachuri L, Witte JS, Delemotte L, Giacomini KM, Coyote-Maestas W. PMID: 37333090; PMCID: PMC10274788.
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    14. DIMPLE: deep insertion, deletion, and missense mutation libraries for exploring protein variation in evolution, disease, and biology. Genome Biol. 2023 02 24; 24(1):36. Macdonald CB, Nedrud D, Grimes PR, Trinidad D, Fraser JS, Coyote-Maestas W. PMID: 36829241; PMCID: PMC9951526.
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    15. Determinants of trafficking, conduction, and disease within a K+ channel revealed through multiparametric deep mutational scanning. Elife. 2022 05 31; 11. Coyote-Maestas W, Nedrud D, He Y, Schmidt D. PMID: 35639599; PMCID: PMC9273215.
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    16. Probing ion channel functional architecture and domain recombination compatibility by massively parallel domain insertion profiling. Nat Commun. 2021 12 08; 12(1):7114. Coyote-Maestas W, Nedrud D, Suma A, He Y, Matreyek KA, Fowler DM, Carnevale V, Myers CL, Schmidt D. PMID: 34880224; PMCID: PMC8654947.
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    17. ORACLE reveals a bright future to fight bacteria. Elife. 2021 04 15; 10. Coyote-Maestas W, Fraser JS. PMID: 33856343; PMCID: PMC8049741.
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    18. A large-scale survey of pairwise epistasis reveals a mechanism for evolutionary expansion and specialization of PDZ domains. Proteins. 2021 Feb 23. Nedrud D, Coyote-Maestas W, Schmidt D. PMID: 33620761.
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    19. Targeted insertional mutagenesis libraries for deep domain insertion profiling. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 01 24; 48(2):e11. Coyote-Maestas W, Nedrud D, Okorafor S, He Y, Schmidt D. PMID: 31745561; PMCID: PMC6954442.
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    20. Targeted insertional mutagenesis libraries for deep domain insertion profiling. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Jan 24; 48(2):1010. Coyote-Maestas W, Nedrud D, Okorafor S, He Y, Schmidt D. PMID: 31799630; PMCID: PMC6954404.
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    21. Domain insertion permissibility-guided engineering of allostery in ion channels. Nat Commun. 2019 01 17; 10(1):290. Coyote-Maestas W, He Y, Myers CL, Schmidt D. PMID: 30655517; PMCID: PMC6336875.
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    22. Two distinct pools of B12 analogs reveal community interdependencies in the ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 01 10; 114(2):364-369. Heal KR, Qin W, Ribalet F, Bertagnolli AD, Coyote-Maestas W, Hmelo LR, Moffett JW, Devol AH, Armbrust EV, Stahl DA, Ingalls AE. PMID: 28028206; PMCID: PMC5240700.
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