Rate My Professor Matthew Torres

Torres's research centers on protein post-translational modifications, integrating quantitative proteomics, bioinformatics, cell biology, and biochemistry to investigate their regulation of G proteins and protein-protein interaction networks via phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and acetylation. His lab employs mass spectrometry, yeast genetics, dose-response assays, in vitro biochemistry, and microscopy to explore coordinated PTM regulation of signaling complexes, cross-pathway PTM coordination, PTM networks in stress adaptation, and PTM detection technologies. Key publications include "Generative β-hairpin design using a residue-based physicochemical property landscape" (Biophys. J., 2024), "Depletion Assisted Hemin Affinity (DAsHA) Proteomics Reveals an Expanded Landscape of Heme Binding Proteins in the Human Proteome" (Metallomics, 2023), "N-terminal intrinsic disorder is an ancestral feature of Gγ subunits that influences the balance between different Gβγ signaling axes in yeast" (J. Biol. Chem., 2023), "Sod1 integrates oxygen availability to redox regulate NADPH production and the thiol redoxome" (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2022), and "Combinatorial phosphorylation modulates the structure and function of the G protein γ subunit in yeast" (Sci. Signal., 2021). Torres has mentored eight Ph.D. students (six graduated), eight postdocs, twelve M.S. students, ten undergraduates, and four high school students, teaching a course on Proteomics: Technologies and Applications.