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

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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Novel sulfatase cancer therapeutics negatively impact Bacteroidota of the colonic microbiota in a non-sulfatase dependent manner

  • Conor J. Crawford; Christian Gunawan; Zongjia Chen; Dominic P Byrne; Cosette Darby; Ana S Luis; Stefano Elli; Edwin A Yates; David N Bolam; Sjoerd van der Post; Spencer J Williams; Alan Cartmell
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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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Polyelectrolyte mannan from diatoms reshapes sunlit ocean 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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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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