Research
Research groups
Research interests
- DNA chemistry
- Nucleic acid chemistry
- Nucleic acid therapeutics
- Chemical biology
- Organic chemistry
Publications
Supervision
Current PhD Students
Biography
Ysobel is a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. She was awarded her PhD in 2015 from the University of Cambridge, where she used chemical probes to study how pathogenic bacteria talk to each other under the supervision of Professor David Spring. From 2015–2021, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Professor Tom Brown at the University of Oxford, where she designed and synthesised new chemical modifications for therapeutic oligonucleotides. Before joining the University of Southampton, she was a senior chemist at the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA), a new Medical Research Council (MRC) unit.
Professional appointments
2022 - current: Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton
2021 - 2022: Senior Researcher, The Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA), Harwell
2015 - 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Qualifications
2015: PhD in Chemistry, University of Cambridge
2011: MChem (Master of Chemistry), University of Southampton: 1st Class (Hons)