Marcos Pires Fall 2015

 presented an abstract and poster “D-amino acid based modification of bacterial cell surfaces” at the Gordon Research Conference Bioorganic Chemistry (2015) and a poster titled “D-Amino Acid Remodeling of Bacterial Cell Surfaces,” at the American Peptide Symposium. In the spring, Pires was also the recipient of the Faculty Research Grant. The research group has published five peer reviewed journal articles so far in 2015 and they have two additional articles out for review. The articles published are: 1. Pidgeon S, Fura J., Leon W., Birabaharan M., Vezenov D., & Pires MM. “Metabolic-Based Profiling Of Bacteria Via Unnatural C-Terminated D-Amino Acids” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2015) 54, 6158-6162. 2. Pidgeon S. & Pires MM. “D-Amino Carboxamide-Based Recruitment Of Dinitrophenol Antibodies To Bacterial Surfaces Via Peptidoglycan Remodeling.“ Chemical Communications (2015) 51, 10330-10333. 3. Fura J. & Pires MM. “D-Amino Carboxamide-Based Recruitment Of Dinitrophenol Antibodies To Bacterial Surfaces Via Peptidoglycan Remodeling” in Biopolymers (2015). In Press. 4. Sabulski M., Wang Y., & Pires MM. “PAD2 Activity Monitored Via A Fluorescent Substrate Analog” in Chemical Biology & Drug Design (2015) In Press. 5. Sarkar S. & Pires MM. “D-Amino Acids Do Not Inhibit Biofilm Formation In Staphylococcus Aureus” in Plos ONE (2015) 10, E0117613. (Plos ONE is an online only journal).