Hayden Peacock
Postdoctoral Fellow
- City/country of origin
- Napier, New Zealand
- Hobbies
- Music, jogging, exploring Tokyo
- Places You Like
- Somewhere warm
- Where for a big vacation
- South America
- What are your strong points?
- I’m good at cooking.
- Music: what is some intense music for intense lab work?
- Mahler, Symphony #2, final movement.
- What are people in the lab doing?
- Playing with magnets, mostly.
- What was surprising about the suga lab
- The fact that I struggle to think of a piece of equipment that we don’t have.
- Original motivation towards science?
- My Dad showing me what happens when baking soda and vinegar are combined.
- A few words for future lab mates
- Welcome!
- Science is…….
- Often frustrating, occasionally rewarding.
Education & professional career
- 2002-2005
- BSc(Hons), Chemistry, University of Canterbury, NZ
- 2006-2011
- PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2012-2016
- Post-doc, University of Oxford, UK
- 2017
- Post-doc, University of Queensland, Australia
Publications
- "Ribosomally-synthesised cyclic peptides from plants as drug leads and pharmaceutical scaffolds."
- D.J. Craik; M.H. Lee; F.B.H. Rehm; B. Tombling; B. Doffek; H. Peacock
- Bioorg Med Chem, 26, 2727-2737 (2018)
- "Tetracyanoresorcin[4]arene selectively recognises trimethyllysine and inhibits its enzyme-catalysed demethylation."
- H. Peacock; C.C. Thinnes; A. Kawamura; A.D. Hamilton
- Supramol. Chem., 28, 575-581 (2016)
- "Non-covalent S...O interactions control conformation in a scaffold that disrupts islet amyloid polypeptide fibrillation."
- H. Peacock; J. Luo; T. Yamashita; J. Luccarelli; S. Thompson; A.D. Hamilton
- Chem Sci, 7, 6435-6439 (2016)
- "7-Substituted 8-aza-7-deazaadenosines for modification of the siRNA major groove."
- J.M. Ibarra-Soza; A.A. Morris; P. Jayalath; H. Peacock; W.E. Conrad; M.B. Donald; M.J. Kurth; P.A. Beal
- Org Biomol Chem, 10, 6491-6497 (2012)
- "Chemical modification of siRNA bases to probe and enhance RNA interference."
- H. Peacock; A. Kannan; P.A. Beal; C.J. Burrows
- J Org Chem, 76, 7295-7300 (2011)
- "Covalent stabilization of a small molecule-RNA complex."
- H. Peacock; R. Bachu; P.A. Beal
- Bioorg Med Chem Lett, 21, 5002-5005 (2011)
- "Nucleobase and ribose modifications control immunostimulation by a microRNA-122-mimetic RNA."
- H. Peacock; R.V. Fucini; P. Jayalath; J.M. Ibarra-Soza; H.J. Haringsma; W.M. Flanagan; A. Willingham; P.A. Beal
- J Am Chem Soc, 133, 9200-9203 (2011)
- "Minor-groove-modulating adenosine replacements control protein binding and RNAi activity in siRNAs."
- H. Peacock; E. Fostvedt; P.A. Beal
- ACS Chem Biol, 5, 1115-1124 (2010)
- "N(2)-Modified 2-aminopurine ribonucleosides as minor-groove-modulating adenosine replacements in duplex RNA."
- H. Peacock; O. Maydanovych; P.A. Beal
- Org Lett, 12, 1044-1047 (2010)
Contact info
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- E-mail… peacock"at"chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (change "at" to @)