Research Interests
- Medicinal chemistry, Antimicrobial agents, Organic synthesis, Antimicrobial peptides, Peptide chemistry, Fused heterocycles, Peptidomimicry, Alternatives to antibiotics
Current Research Projects
- Synthesis, structure-activity studies, and biological evaluation of bacteriocins as alternatives to antibiotics
- Development and structure-activity studies of antimicrobial lipopeptides against Gram-negative bacteria
- Exploiting the iron addiction of bacteria: Design of new hybrid bacteriocin-siderophore molecules
- Valorization of natural triterpenes by derivatization for the development of new biosourced bioactive molecules
Tools and Expertises
- Peptide synthesis, Peptide labelling and derivatization, Structure-activity relationship studies
- Peptide synthesizer, Flash purification systems, Preparative HPLC, LC-MS