Dr John Zhao

Dr John Zhao

Post-doctoral researcher (2006-2008)

John obtained his PhD from King’s College, London, where his supervisor was Professor Colin Reese, FRS. He then took up an NIH post-doctoral fellowship with Marvin Caruthers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. He worked at Cruachem Ltd (Glasgow), before post-doctoral positions with David Lilley (University of Dundee) and Tom Brown (2006-2008), where he worked on DNA triple helices. John is currently a research fellow at Birmingham University. His research interests include the synthesis of nucleic acid derivatives and their application in biological systems.

4 Papers

Synthesis of anthraquinone oligonucleotides for triplex stabilization

Z. Y. Zhao, G. M. Peng, J. Michels, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucl. Acids 26 (8-9), 921-925, 2007.

Potent Triple Helix Stabilization by 5',3'-Modified Triplex-Forming Oligonucleotides

N. Ben Gaied, Z. Y. Zhao, S. R. Gerrard, K. R. Fox and T. Brown. ChemBioChem 10 (11), 1839-1851, 2009.

The Use of an Electroactive Marker as a SERS Label in an E-melting Mutation Discrimination Assay

S. Mahajan, J. A. Richardson, N. Ben Gaied, Z. Y. Zhao, T. Brown and P. N. Bartlett. Electroanalysis 21 (20), 2190-2197, 2009.

End-capped HyBeacon probes for the analysis of human genetic polymorphisms related to warfarin metabolism

N. Ben Gaied, J. A. Richardson, D. G. Singleton, Z. Y. Zhao, D. French and T. Brown. Org. Biomol. Chem. 8 (12), 2728-2734, 2010.