New Approaches Towards Novel Antibacterial Agents

Christian Ducho currently works in the Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Saarland University. Christian does research in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry. Their current main projects are antibiotics and modified oligonucleotides.

1. Non-nucleoside small molecule inhibitors of MraY: challenges and opportunities Sudeshna Roy 2. Nucleoside-derived inhibitors of MraY: medicinal chemistry with natural products Christia Ducho 3. The bacterial enzyme MurA as a drug target for potential novel antibiotics Matthias Engel 4. Bacterial metalloproteases as promising targets for antivirulence agents Anna K. H. Hirsch 5. Quo vadis quorum sensing? Advances in disrupting the Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal (PQS) Martin Empting