Austin Shigemoto

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Austin Shigemoto

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Bachelor's Institution: Willamette University
Bachelor's Year: 2013
Ph.D. Institution: Portland State University
Ph.D. Year: 2018
Postdoc Institution: WPI
Postdoc Years: 2018–2021
Current Employer: LinkedIn

Austin Shigemoto is a former postdoctoral researcher from the Burdette group. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2018 from Portland State University where he worked on fluorescent chemosensors under the guidance of Professor Theresa McCormick. In 2018, he moved to WPI to join the Burdette group and work on photocaged complexes.

Research

Publications

5. Piyanka Hettiarachchi, Sayuri Niyangoda, Austin Shigemoto, Isabel J. Solowiej, Shawn C. Burdette, and Michael A. Johnson. ACS Neurosci. 2024, 15, 772–782. Caged Zn2+ Photolysis in Zebrafish Whole Brains Reveals Subsecond Modulation of Dopamine Uptake

4. Erin E. Hickey, Austin Shigemoto, Arne Gericke and Shawn C Burdette. Anal. Sensing. 2022, e202200. Isothermal Titration Calorimetry for Characterizing the Zinc2+- Binding Properties of Photocaged Complexes with Micromolar Affinity

3. Mateusz Wilamowski, Darren. A. Sherrell, Youngchang Kim, Alex Lavens, Robert. W. Henning, Krzysztof Lazarski, Austin Shigemoto, Michael Endres, Natalia Maltseva, Gyorgy Babnigg, Shawn C. Burdette, Vukica Srajer and Andrzej Joachimiak. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13, 7379. Time-Resolved β-lactam Cleavage by L1 Metallo-β-Lactamase.

2. Austin Shigemoto, Avik Bhattacharjee, Erin Hickey, Hallee Boyd, Theresa McCormick and Shawn Burdette. ChemPhotoChem. 2022, e202200102 (1–5). Improved photodecarboxylation properties in zinc photocages constructed using m-nitrophenylacetic acid variants. Preprint on CHEMRXIV 2021 .

1. Shige Xing, Yao Lin, Liangyuan Cai, Prem N. Basa, Austin K. Shigemoto, Chengbin Zheng, Feng Zhang, Shawn C. Burdette and Yi Lu. Anal. Chem. 2021, 5856–5861. Detection and Quantification of Tightly Bound Zn2+ in Blood Serum Using a Photocaged Chelator and a DNAzyme Fluorescent Sensor