News

Our review on oligonucleotide analogues with cationic backbone linkages has been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem. (DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.14.111).

Stefanie Weck has joined the group for her Ph. D., and Anna Heib has joined the group for her Master thesis. Welcome!

A paper from a collaboration with the group of Steven Van Lanen and others on previously undiscovered naturally occurring muraymycin antibiotics has been published in J. Nat. Prod. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b01054).

Stefan Koppermann has received a poster award for his poster presentation at the Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry conference in Jena, Germany. Congratulations!

Our paper on the target interaction of naturally occurring muraymycin nucleoside antibiotics has been published in ChemMedChem (DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201700793) including a cover feature (DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201800227).

A paper from a collaboration with the group of Steven Van Lanen and others on an enzyme from capuramycin biosynthesis has been published in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718667115).

Our paper on the ribosylation of an acid-labile glycosyl acceptor has been published in Synlett (DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1591517).

Sven Lauterbach has joined the group for his Ph. D., and Pierre Junghanns has joined the group for his Diploma work. Welcome!

Our joint paper with the group of Tom Grossmann on cationic oligonucleotide analogues has been published in Chem. Eur. J. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704338, selected as ‚Hot Paper‘).

Saarbrücken has hosted the Annual Meeting 2017 of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG). Thank you to all speakers, participants and helpers for a great conference!