Education 

B.S., Rice University
Ph.D., Biophysics, University of Virginia

Courses Taught

CH 101     General Chemistry I
CH 103     General Chemistry I Laboratory
CH 107     Chemistry of Daily Life
BIN 218    Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Proteomics
BIN 219    Biomedical Informatics
BIN 333    Special Study 

Publications 

Pearson, W. R. and Sierk, M. L.  (2005) “The Limits of Protein Sequence Comparison?” Current Opinion in Structural Biology 15(3), 254-260.

Sierk, M. L. and Kleywegt, G. J.  (2004) “Déjà vu all over again - Finding and Analyzing Protein Structure Similarities.” Structure 12, 2103-2111.

Sierk, M. L. and Pearson, W. R. (2004) “Sensitivity and selectivity in protein structure comparison.” Protein Science 13, 773-785.

Sierk, M. L., Zhao, Q., and Rastinejad, F. (2001) “DNA deformability as a recognition feature in the RevErb response element.” Biochemistry 40, 12833-12843.

Zhao, Q., Chasse, S. A., Devarakonda, S., Sierk, M. L., Ahvazi, B.,  and Rastinejad, F. (2000) “Structural basis of RXR-DNA interactions.” J. Mol. Biol. 296, 509-520.