Portrait of Conor

Dr

Conor Crawford

Conor completed his bachelor's and doctoral studies at University College Dublin, Ireland, and was a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2020, he joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces as a Marie Curie fellow and, during this time, was a visiting scientist at the MPI for Marine Microbiology. In 2025, he joined the Medicinal Chemistry Research Group at the Leibniz Research Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP).

Chemical Biology


Nazaré Group


FMP

Publications

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Automated synthesis of fucoidan enables molecular investigations in marine glycobiology

  • Conor Crawford; Mikkel Schultz-Johansen; Phuong Luong; Silvia Vidal-Melgosa; Jan-Hendrik Hehemann; Peter Seeberger
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De novo glycan annotation of mass spectrometry data

  • Margot Bligh; Sebastian Silva-Solar; Linda Biehler; Christopher C. J. Fitzgerald; Conor J. Crawford; Mikkel Schultz-Johansen; Sofie Niggemeier; Peter H. Seeberger; Manuel Liebeke; Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
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Synthetic Glycans Reveal Determinants of Antibody Functional Efficacy against a Fungal Pathogen

  • Conor J. Crawford; Lorenzo Guazzelli; Scott A. McConnell; Orla McCabe; Clotilde d’Errico; Seth D. Greengo; Maggie P. Wear; Anne E. Jedlicka; Arturo Casadevall; Stefan Oscarson

ACS Infectious Diseases 2024

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Semisynthetic Glycoconjugate Vaccine Candidates against Cryptococcus neoformans

  • Conor J. Crawford; Livia Liporagi-Lopes; Carolina Coelho; Samuel R. Santos Junior; André Moraes Nicola; Maggie P. Wear; Raghav Vij; Stefan Oscarson; Arturo Casadevall

ACS Infectious Diseases 2024

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The structure of a Cryptococcus neoformans polysaccharide motif recognized by protective antibodies: A combined NMR and MD study

  • Audra Hargett; Hugo Azurmendi; Conor J. Crawford; Maggie P. Wear; Stefan Oscarson; Arturo Casadevall; Daron Freedberg

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2024

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Automated Synthesis of Algal Fucoidan Oligosaccharides

  • Conor J. Crawford; Mikkel Schultz-Johansen; Phuong Luong; Silvia Vidal-Melgosa; Jan-Hendrik Hehemann; Peter H. Seeberger

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024

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Sulfated mannan helps diatoms domesticate their microbiome

  • J. Krull; C.J. Crawford; C. Sidhu; V. Solanki; M. Bligh; L. Rößler; R.K. Singh; G. Huang; C.S. Robb; H. Teeling; P.H. Seeberger; T. Schweder; J-H. Hehemann
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Clues to a Pd/C catalyst’s efficiency can be found on its surface: Identification of an efficient catalyst for the global hydrogenolysis of ether protecting groups

  • Conor Crawford; Yan Qiao; Yequn Liu; Dongmei Huang; Wenjun Yan; Stefan Oscarson; Shuai Chen
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Optimised Conditions for the Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Benzyl and Naphthylmethyl Ethers: Preventing Saturation of Aromatic Protecting Groups

  • Conor Crawford; Stefan Oscarson
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Optimised Conditions for the Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Benzyl and Naphthylmethyl Ethers: Preventing Saturation of Aromatic Protecting Groups

  • Conor Crawford; Stefan Oscarson
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Glycan FRET Probes for Screening Catalytic Antibodies Against Cryptococcus Neoformans Capsule

  • Conor Crawford; Maggie P. Wear; Daniel F. Q. Smith; Clotilde d'Errico; Arturo Casadevall; Stefan Oscarson
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Variation in the Structure and Activity of Commercial Palladium on Carbon Catalysts

  • Conor Crawford; Yan Qiao; Yequn Liu; Dongmei Huang; Wenjun Yan; Stefan Oscarson; Shuai Chen
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A synthetic glycan array containing Cryptococcus neoformans glucuronoxylomannan capsular polysaccharide fragments allows the mapping of protective epitopes

  • Lorenzo Guazzelli; Conor J. Crawford; Rebecca Ulc; Anthony Bowen; Orla McCabe; Anne J. Jedlicka; Maggie P. Wear; Arturo Casadevall; Stefan Oscarson

Chemical Science 2020

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Optimized Conditions for the Palladium-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Benzyl and Naphthylmethyl Ethers: Preventing Saturation of Aromatic Protecting Groups

  • Conor Crawford

European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2020

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Convergent total synthesis of Cryptococcus neoformans serotype B capsule repeating motif

  • Conor Crawford

Carbohydrate Research 2020

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Exploring Cryptococcus neoformans capsule structure and assembly with a hydroxylamine-armed fluorescent probe

  • Conor J. Crawford; Radamés J.B. Cordero; Lorenzo Guazzelli; Maggie P. Wear; Anthony Bowen; Stefan Oscarson; Arturo Casadevall

Journal of Biological Chemistry 2020

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Variation in Cell Surface Hydrophobicity among Cryptococcus neoformans Strains Influences Interactions with Amoebas

  • Raghav Vij; Carina Danchik; Conor Crawford; Quigly Dragotakes; Arturo Casadevall; J. Andrew Alspaugh

mSphere 2020

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