Dr Marta Richardson (Gerowska)
Dr Marta Richardson (Gerowska)
Post-doctoral researcher (2011-2013)
Marta studied for her undergraduate degree in chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland from 2003-2008. From 2006 till 2008 she worked in the RNA Chemistry Group at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Poznan, for her master’s degree on chemical synthesis and studies on the effect of LNA-2-thiouridine on the thermal stability of duplexes LNA-2’-OMeRNA/RNA. Marta started her PhD in Tom Brown’s group in 2008, on the synthesis of modified fluorophores and quenchers for improvement in DNA sequencing, genetic analysis, and single molecule fluorescence. She remained in the group as a post-doc after finishing her PhD, and then joined Illumina (Cambridge, UK) in 2013.
4 Papers
Six-Colour HyBeacon Probes for Multiplex Genetic Analysis
ChemBioChem 11 (18), 2530-2533, 2010.
Efficient reverse click labeling of azide oligonucleotides with multiple alkynyl Cy-Dyes applied to the synthesis of HyBeacon probes for genetic analysis
Tetrahedron 68 (3), 857-864, 2012.
A highly fluorescent DNA toolkit: synthesis and properties of oligonucleotides containing new Cy3, Cy5 and Cy3B monomers
Nucleic Acids Res. 40 (14), 2012.
Enzymatic Incorporation and Fluorescent Labelling of Cyclooctyne-Modified Deoxyuridine Triphosphates in DNA
Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2014.