Understand protein structure-function relationships and use this knowledge to answer fundamental questions of chemistry/biochemistry at the University of Otago.

Joined April 2020
Just out: Covalent isothiocyanate inhibitors of macrophage migration inhibitory factor as potential colorectal cancer treatments. Great collaborative effort between @OtagoPharmacy @joel_tyndall , @OtagoBiochemist and @otago Chemistry doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.2024003…
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New @BiochemistryACS paper about one of my favorite enzymes ever - Structural, Spectroscopic, and Computational Insights of the Ethylene-Forming Enzyme. Collaboration between @MSU_BMB @michigantech and myself at @OtagoBiochemist doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.…
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Structures just released rcsb.org/structure/8T87 rcsb.org/structure/8T88 determined in collaboration with @Stanford @mbogyo and my lab at @OtagoBiochemist - JACS paper on Probes for Specific Detection of Staph Infections doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c13974 @JeyunJo @TulsiUpadhyay5 +others
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Thrilled to share the news!! Thanks Matt @mbogyo, for giving this fantastic opportunity to work on this project. Enjoyed teaming up with @JeyunJo, @MFellnerLab and all our collaborators 🙌 Thanks @ec_woods, @NikkiPedowitz, @SijieWang5 for helping us with this project!!
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MatthiasFellner retweeted
Exciting news from our recent research with @TulsiUpadhyay5 on oxadiazolone-based probes targeting FphE, a S. areus specific serine hydrolase. This is a result of great collaboration with @MFellnerLab, the Valdez lab, Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, and the team at @mbogyo lab.
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We are looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to create peptide tools for the treatment & diagnosis of infectious diseases at the University of Otago & Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. Funded by New Zealand Maurice Wilkins Centre Starting September Details otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
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We are looking for an Assistant Research Fellow to create Staphylococcus aureus samples for metabolomics to identify the roles of serine hydrolases in biofilms (otago.ac.nz/biochemistry/new…) University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Starting in July Details: otago.taleo.net/careersectio…
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Bacterial biofilm therapeutics project wins Marsden Fund support ift.tt/Ylq0Vr9 A project investigating new ways to fight deadly bacterial biofilms has won a Marden Fast-Start fellowship for its lead researcher, Otago biochemist Dr Matthias Fellner. Matthias is seeki…
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Otago researchers set to tackle health issues with Career Development Awards ift.tt/ED3hxJa From a global health crisis to Aotearoa’s health inequity – University of Otago projects awarded Health Research Council funding will benefit those at home and around the world…
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$3.8 million to Otago researchers in Career Development Awards ift.tt/Zaz9o1D The Health Research Council has awarded 19 Otago researchers almost $3.8 million in Career Development Awards. These awards help launch research careers through a wide range of master’s and…
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MatthiasFellner retweeted
Really excited to have our paper describing mutations in histone H4 now out - a fantastic collaboration with @GijsvanHaaften and lots of families around the world. Now investigating the mechanism thanks to @MarsdenFund support!
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MatthiasFellner retweeted
Thanks also to @MacePeter for helping with the structural interpretations of these mutations within the nucleosome!
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Newly discovered #Staphylococcus aureus serine hydrolase probe and drug targets pub.iapchem.org/ojs/index.ph… My latest review of ten S. aureus protein targets for probe & drug development. Looking forward to new advances @mbogyo @ChristianSLentz and myself @OtagoBiochemist.
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Excited to share my latest paper in #JournalofLifeSciences on #Cesium binding in #protein #crystals based on work between @MSU_NatSci and @OtagoBiochemist doi.org/10.36069/JoLS/202103… Consider #caesium in your #crystallography experiments to improve #diffraction or solve #phases.
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Altered structure and dynamics of pathogenic cytochrome c variants correlate with increased apoptotic activity doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20200793 Our latest work hot off the press from @OtagoBiochemist. Thanks @parakra, KD, @ItamarKass, @gnljameson, SMW & @Liz_Ledgerwood