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The Tor Group is focused on three main areas of research: a) understanding the structure of nucleic acids and developing novel binders targeting specific structures found in bacteria and viruses; b) discovering new fluorescent nucleotides to be used as a probe for understanding nucleic acid structure and function; and c) examining the delivery properties and cellular uptake of guanidinoglycosides. Click here to find out more.
Latest Lab News & Headlines:
- Congrats Tyler on receiving the Undergraduate Summer Perrin Research Fellowship!
- Congrats Deyuan and Marcela for passing their department exams!
- Congrats to Ben and Darlene on presenting research posters at the ACSSA Undergraduate Poster Session!
- Congrats to Dr. Kaivin Hadidi on his thesis defense!
- Kaivin & Prof. Tor have just published a new article in Chem. Eur. J. on Azetidines-Containing Fluorescent Purine Analogs: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties! [LINK] - Deyuan, Yao, Paul, & Prof. Tor have just published a new article in Chem. Eur. J. on Isomorphic Fluorescent Nucleosides Facilitate Real-Time Monitoring of RNA Depurination by Ribozome Inactivating Proteins! [LINK] - Welcome to new graduate student: Jamie Lam!
- Paul, Shenghua, Marcela, & Prof. Tor have just published a new article in Chem. Eur. J. on A New Variant of Emissive RNA Alphabets! [LINK] - Congrats to Dr. Paul Ludford on his thesis defense!
- Marcela, Yuyu, Paul, Yao, Andrea & Prof. Tor have just published a new article in ACS Chem. Biol. on Real-Time monitoring of Human Guanine Deaminase Activity by an Emissive Guanine Analog! [LINK] - Paul, Yao, Shenghua & Prof. Tor have just published a new acticle in Org. Biol. Chem. on how Cytidine Deaminase can deaminate fused pyrimidine ribonucleosides! [LINK]