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Maxwell Jacob Sigal

Doctor course student


City/country of origin
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Hobbies
Playing board/card/video games, coffee, learning Japanese, and sleeping
Places You Like
Anywhere with good coffee and mild weather
Where for a big vacation
Australia, New Zealand, or Scotland
What are your strong points?
Hype man, good listener, and faking it till I make it
Music: what is some intense music for intense lab work?
Early 2000s US pop but NIGHTCORE
What are people in the lab doing?
Pipetting
What was surprising about the suga lab
How much everyone genuinely cares about each other!
Original motivation towards science?
To find unique solutions to difficult problems
A few words for future lab mates
Try to keep a consistent work schedule
Science is…….
Fun but really difficult

Education & professional career

2016-2020
B.A., Northwestern University


Publications

"Engineering tRNAs for the Ribosomal Translation of Non-proteinogenic Monomers."
M. Sigal; S. Matsumoto; A. Beattie; T. Katoh; H. Suga
Chem Rev, 124, 6444-6500 (2024)

Contact info

    • E-mail… maxwell-sigal"at"g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (change "at" to @)