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

Small molecule modulation of quorum sensing pathways
DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2014)
247
High Content Screening of Diverse Compound Libraries Identifies Potent Modulators of Tubulin Dynamics
L Laraia, J Stokes, A Emery, GJ McKenzie, AR Venkitaraman, DR Spring
ACS medicinal chemistry letters
(2014)
5
Diversity-oriented synthesis as a tool for identifying new modulators of mitosis.
BM Ibbeson, L Laraia, E Alza, CJ O' Connor, YS Tan, HML Davies, G McKenzie, AR Venkitaraman, DR Spring
Nature communications
(2014)
5
Investigating peptide sequence variations for ‘double-click’ stapled p53 peptides
YH Lau, P de Andrade, N Sköld, GJ McKenzie, AR Venkitaraman, C Verma, DP Lane, DR Spring
Organic & biomolecular chemistry
(2014)
12
Functionalised staple linkages for modulating the cellular activity of stapled peptides
YH Lau, P de Andrade, S-T Quah, M Rossmann, L Laraia, N Sköld, TJ Sum, PJE Rowling, TL Joseph, C Verma, M Hyvönen, LS Itzhaki, AR Venkitaraman, CJ Brown, DP Lane, DR Spring
Chemical Science
(2014)
5
How diverse are diversity assessment methods? A comparative analysis and benchmarking of molecular descriptor space
A Koutsoukas, S Paricharak, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring, AP Ijzerman, RC Glen, D Marcus, A Bender
J. Chem. Inf. Model.
(2013)
54
Virulence in Pectobacterium atrosepticum is regulated by a coincidence circuit involving quorum sensing and the stress alarmone, (p)ppGpp
SD Bowden, A Eyres, JCS Chung, RE Monson, A Thompson, GPC Salmond, DR Spring, M Welch
Molecular Microbiology
(2013)
90
Concise copper-catalyzed synthesis of tricyclic biaryl ether-linked aza-heterocyclic ring systems
P Mestichelli, MJ Scott, WRJD Galloway, J Selwyn, JS Parker, DR Spring
Org Lett
(2013)
15
Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria: Current strategies for the discovery of novel antibacterials
KMG O'Connell, JT Hodgkinson, HF Sore, M Welch, GPC Salmond, DR Spring
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
(2013)
52
Chemical library screening approaches to aid the design of protein–protein inhibitors
G Zinzalla, L Laraia, DR Spring
(2013)

Research Group

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01223 336498

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