Latest DNA research from Dr Zoë Waller now on YouTube

Dr Waller, Associate Professor in Drug Discovery, in the UCL School of Pharmacy, recently published a paper on her latest work and took to YouTube to explain all about it in simple terms. Find out more about detecting unusual DNA structures on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/exyF4FNZzR8

Dr Waller says “The work described in the video is the result of an exciting collaboration with Dr John Fielden in the School of Chemistry at UEA. The project was driven by Philip Spence, a graduate student we co-supervised”

Dr Waller joined UCL School of Pharmacy in July as part of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry. Her group is interested in studying DNA structures, in particular i-motifs, which are four-stranded DNA structures formed in regions that contain a lot of the base cytosine. 

The work, entitled “Beyond Solvent Exclusion: i-Motif Detecting Capability and an Alternative DNA Light-Switching Mechanism in a Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complex” was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Further information:

• Dr Zoë Waller
• Dr John Fielden - staff profile
• School of Chemistry at UEA
• American Chemical Society