Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor David Spring

Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

 

Our research interests originate from a desire to understand and exploit biological systems using organic synthesis primarily. Listed below are areas of research that we are exploring; for more detailed information visit the Spring Group web pages.

We collaborate with many chemical companies and academic groups around the world. The scientific education of group members in organic synthesis is given a high priority; however, they are encouraged also to learn and perform new techniques relating to their projects with our industrial and academic collaborators. Every effort is made so that group members achieve their career ambitions, usually jobs in academia or the chemical industries.

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For more detailed information please visit the Spring Group research pages.

Teaching

If you are looking for the teaching material from my lecture courses, then please go to the Moodle website.

Publications

For a list of all our publications please visit the Spring Group publication page.

Publications

Bioinspired Total Synthesis of Bussealin E.
DG Twigg, L Baldassarre, EC Frye, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
Organic letters
(2018)
20
(doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b00340)
Loving the poison: the methylcitrate cycle and bacterial pathogenesis
SK Dolan, A Wijaya, SM Geddis, DR Spring, R Silva-Rocha, M Welch
Microbiology (Reading)
(2018)
164
(doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000604)
Stapled peptides as a new technology to investigate protein-protein interactions in human platelets
J Iegre, NS Ahmed, JS Gaynord, Y Wu, KM Herlihy, YS Tan, ME Lopes-Pires, R Jha, YH Lau, HF Sore, C Verma, DH O' Donovan, N Pugh, DR Spring
Chemical science
(2018)
9
(doi: 10.1039/x0xx00000x)
Highly reactive bis-cyclooctyne-modified diarylethene for SPAAC-mediated cross-linking.
AV Strizhak, K Sharma, O Babii, S Afonin, AS Ulrich, IV Komarov, DR Spring
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2018)
16
(doi: 10.1039/c8ob02428f)
The Application of Diversity-oriented Synthesis in Chemical Biology
N Mateu, SL Kidd, TJ Osberger, HL Stewart, S Bartlett, WRJD Galloway, AJP North, HF Sore, DR Spring
(2018)
10
Using peptidomimetics and constrained peptides as valuable tools for inhibiting protein-protein interactions
NS Robertson, DR Spring
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
(2018)
23
(doi: 10.3390/molecules23040959)
Second-generation CK2α inhibitors targeting the αd pocket
J Iegre, P Brear, C De Fusco, M Yoshida, SL Mitchell, M Rossmann, L Carro, HF Sore, M Hyvönen, DR Spring
Chemical Science
(2018)
9
(doi: 10.1039/c7sc05122k)
Stereocontrolled Semisyntheses of Elliptone and 12aβ-Hydroxyelliptone.
DA Russell, WJS Fong, DG Twigg, HF Sore, DR Spring
J Nat Prod
(2017)
80
(doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00527)
Structural and Functional Characterization of Malate Synthase G from Opportunistic Pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa
AC McVey, P Medarametla, X Chee, S Bartlett, A Poso, DR Spring, T Rahman, M Welch
Biochemistry
(2017)
56
(doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00852)
Targeting the Genome‐Stability Hub Ctf4 by Stapled‐Peptide Design
Y Wu, F Villa, J Maman, YH Lau, L Dobnikar, AC Simon, K Labib, DR Spring, L Pellegrini
Angewandte Chemie
(2017)
129
(doi: 10.1002/ange.201705611)

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01223 336498

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spring@ch.cam.ac.uk

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Trinity College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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