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

Identification of an anti-MRSA dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor from a diversity-oriented synthesis.
EE Wyatt, WR Galloway, GL Thomas, M Welch, O Loiseleur, AT Plowright, DR Spring
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2008)
Learning the language of bacteria
JT Hodgkinson, M Welch, DR Spring
ACS Chemical Biology
(2007)
2
Fluorous tagged small molecule microarrays
RL Nicholson, ML Ladlow, DR Spring
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2007)
Design and chance in the self-assembly of macromolecules.
JAR Worrall, M Gorna, XY Pei, DR Spring, RL Nicholson, BF Luisi
Biochem Soc Trans
(2007)
35
Variations on a theme: Diverse N-acyl homoserine lactone-mediated quorum sensing mechanisms in Gram-negative bacteria
D Smith, JH Wang, JE Swatton, P Davenport, B Price, H Mikkelsen, H Stickland, K Nishikawa, N Gardiol, DR Spring, M Welch
Science Progress
(2007)
89 PART 3
Small-Molecule Screening: Advances in Microarraying and Cell-Imaging Technologies
RL Nicholson, M Welch, M Ladlow, DR Spring
ACS chemical biology
(2007)
2
Fluorous tagged small molecule microarrays (Chemical Communications (2007) (3906) DOI: 10.1039/b712906h)
RL Nicholson, ML Ladlow, DR Spring
Chemical Communications
(2007)
Fluorous tagged small molecule microarrays.
RL Nicholson, ML Ladlow, DR Spring
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2007)
Enriching chemical space with diversity-oriented synthesis
GL Thomas, EE Wyatt, DR Spring
Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel
(2006)
9
ORGN 410-Adventures in diversity-oriented synthesis
DR Spring
ABSTR PAP AM CHEM S
(2006)
232

Research Group

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