Research Interests
Research projects in the Wagner group are highly interdisciplinary: they typically involve
- Small molecule synthesis (e.g., carbohydrates, nucleotides, heterocycles)
- Protein biochemistry, enzymology and bioassays
We collaborate widely with research groups in academia, industry, and research institutes, and projects usually include placement opportunities.
Current Research Opportunities
- Chemical glycoengineering of therapeutic antibodies
- Novel P2Y receptor ligands for drug discovery
- Covalent inhibitors of a bacterial enzyme as novel antimicrobial resistance breakers
- Breaking the resistance: alternative approaches to antibiotics discovery
Public outreach & key achievements
Professor Wagner has developed and led workshops for Native Scientist, an award-winning, non-profit network of international scientists. The mission of the network is to tackle educational disadvantage through science outreach and to promote science and language integrated learning. (nativescientist.com)
Research students
| PhD Title | Chemical glycoengineering of therapeutic antibodies |
| Name | Shasha L |
| Country | China |
| Years of Study | 1 |
| PhD Title | Chemical tools for infectious disease research |
| Name | Ramya Krishna Nuti |
| Country | India |
| Years of Study | 1 |
| PhD Title | Optimised glycoforms of IgE class antibodies for cancer therapy |
| Name | Alexa McCraw |
| Country | UK |
| Years of Study | 1 |
| PhD Title | Development of carbohydrate-based inhibitors and probes for the interrogation of the bacterial proteome |
| Name | Camille Metier |
| Country | France |
| Years of Study | 4 |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Thesis Title | Covalent inhibitors of the bacterial glycosyltransferase LgtC: Novel chemical tools for microbiology |
| Name | Dr Yong Xu |
| Years of Study | 4 |
| Country | China |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral research assistant, UK Russell Group university |
| PhD Thesis Title | Synthetic sugar-nucleotides for the investigation of glycosyltransferases |
| Name | Dr Thomas Pesnot |
| Years of Study | 3 |
| Country | France |
| Current Position | Group Leader, UK Life Sciences sector |
| PhD Thesis Title | Base-modified nucleosides, nucleotides and sugar-nucleotides as novel chemical tools: design, synthesis and biological evaluation |
| Name | Dr Alice Collier |
| Years of Study | 4 |
| Country | UK |
| Current Position | Lecturer in Chemistry Education, UK Russell Group university |