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| B.Sc. University College Dublin (1997); Ph.D.(2002) from University College Dublin (supervisor, Prof. Donald Fitzmaurice). Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. John M. Kelly and Prof. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson in Trinity College Dublin (2002-5). Postgraduate course coordinator, School of Chemistry TCD, (2006-9) responsible for development and implementation of Dublin Chemistry Graduate programme (dublinchemistry.ie). Joined the School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in University College Dublin in September 2009. |
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I am interested in the spectroscopic study of basic and advanced nucleic acid systems. The aim of this work is to gain further understanding of the physical properties and chemical behaviour of DNA in different molecular environments. The three principle areas are: |
| Keane PM, Wojdyla M, Doorley GW, Kelly JM, Clark IP, Parker AW, Greetham GM, Towrie M, Magno LM, Quinn SJ (2012) 'Ultrafast IR spectroscopy of polymeric cytosine nucleic acids reveal the long-lived species is due to a localised state'. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 14 (18):6300-6304. [DOI] [Details] |
| Duffy, P. Magno, L. A. Yadavc, R., Roberts, S. K., Ward, A. D., Botchway, S. W., Colavita, P. E., Quinn, S. J. (2012) 'Incandescent Porous Carbon Microspheres to Light up Cells: Solution Phenomena and Cellular Uptake'. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22 :432-439. [Details] |
| Ryan, G. J., Elmes, R. B. P., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T. (2012) 'Synthesis and photophysical evaluations of fluorescent quaternary bipyridyl-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates as nucleic acid targeting agents'. Supramolecular Chemistry, DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2011.638381 . [Details] |
| Palma, A.; Alvarez, L.A.; Scholz, D.; Frimannsson, D.O.; Grossi, M.; Quinn, S.J.; O'Shea, D.F; (2011) 'Cellular Uptake Mediated Off/On Responsive Near-Infrared Fluorescent Nanoparticles'. Journal of American Chemical Society, 131 . [Details] |
| Elmes RB, Erby M, Cloonan SM, Quinn SJ, Williams DC, Gunnlaugsson T (2011) 'Quaternarized pdppz: synthesis, DNA-binding and biological studies of a novel dppz derivative that causes cellular death upon light irradiation'. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 47 (2):686-688. [DOI] [Details] |
| Keane PM, Wojdyla M, Doorley GW, Watson GW, Clark IP, Greetham GM, Parker AW, Towrie M, Kelly JM, Quinn SJ (2011) 'A comparative picosecond transient infrared study of 1-methylcytosine and 5'-dCMP that sheds further light on the excited states of cytosine derivatives'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133 (12):4212-4215. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
Michal Wojdyla, Jayden A. Smith, Suni Vasudevan, Susan J. Quinn and John M. Kelly; (2010) 'Excited state behaviour of substituted dipyridophenazine Cr(III) complexes in the presence of nucleic acids'. photochemical and photobiological sciences, 9 (9):1196-1202.  [DOI] [Details] |
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| Vasudevan S, Smith JA, Wojdyla M, DiTrapani A, Kruger PE, McCabe T, Fletcher NC, Quinn SJ, Kelly JM (2010) 'Substituted dipyridophenazine complexes of Cr(III): synthesis, enantiomeric resolution and binding interactions with calf thymus DNA'. Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003), 39 (16):3990-3998. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Nagle PS, Quinn SJ, Kelly JM, O'Donovan DH, Khan AR, Rodriguez F, Nguyen B, Wilson WD, Rozas I (2010) 'Understanding the DNA binding of novel non-symmetrical guanidinium/2-aminoimidazolinium derivatives'. Org Biomol Chem, 8 (24):5558-5567. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Bonnet, C. S., Massue, J., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T.; (2009) 'Lanthanide luminescent gold nanoparticles: pH-driven self-assembly formation between Eu(III)-cyclen conjugated AuNPs and sensitising β-diketonate antenna in water'. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 7 (7). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| , Haslin Dato Paduka Ali, Susan J. Quinn, Thomas McCabe, Paul E. Kruger and Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson; (2009) 'Crystallographic, 1H NMR and CD studies of sterically strained thiourea anion receptors possessing two stereogenic centres'. New Journal of Chemistry, 33 (4). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| McGovern, D. A., Doorley, G. W., Whelan, A. M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M. and Quinn, S. J.,; (2009) 'A Study of the pH Dependence of Electronically Excited Guanosine Compounds by Picosecond Time-resolved Infrared Spectroscopy'. photochemical and photobiological sciences, 8 . [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Nonat, A. M., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T.; (2009) 'Mixed f-d coordination complexes as dual visible and near infrared (NIR) emitting probes for targeting DNA'. Inorganic Chemistry, 48 (11):4646-4648. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Towrie, M., Doorley, G. W., George, M. W., Parker, A. W., Quinn S. J., Kelly J. M.; (2009) 'ps-TRIR covers all the bases ¿ recent advances in the use of transient IR for the detection of short-lived species in nucleic acids'. Analyst, 134 (7). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Doorley, G.W., McGovern, D. A., George, M. W., Towrie, M., Parker, A. W., Kelly, J. M. and Quinn, S. J.; (2009) 'Picosecond Transient Infrared Study of the Ultrafast Deactivation Processes of Electronically Excited B-DNA and Z-DNA Forms of [poly(dGdC)]2'. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 48 . [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Nagle, P.S., Rodriguez, F., Kahved¿ić, A., Quinn, S. J., Rozas, I.; (2009) 'Asymmetrical di¿aromatic guanidinium/2¿aminoimidazolinium derivatives: synthesis and DNA affinity'. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 52 (22). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Gunnlaugsson T, Ryan GJ, Quinn S, ; (2008) 'Highly effective DNA photocleavage by novel rigid Ru(bpy)(3)-4-nitro- and -4-amino-1,8-naphthalimide conjugates'. Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (2):401-403. [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| dos Santos, C. M.G., Harte, A. J., Quinn, S. J., Gunnlaugsson, T,; (2008) 'Recent developments in the field of supramolecular lanthanide luminescent sensors and self-assemblies'. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 252 (23-24). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Cathcart, H., Nicolosi, V., Hughes, M., Blau, W. J., Kelly, J. M., Quinn, S. J., Coleman, J. N.; (2008) 'Ordered DNA wrapping switches on Luminescence in Single-walled Nanotube Dispersions'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 112 (38). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Massue, J., Quinn, S. J. and Gunnlaugsson, T.; (2008) 'Lanthanide Luminescent Displacement Assays: The Sensing of Phosphate Anions Using Eu(III)−Cyclen-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution'. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130 (22). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Cathcart, H., Quinn, S., Nicolosi1, V., Kelly, J. M., Blau W. J., and Coleman, J. N.; (2007) 'Spontaneous Debundling of SWNTs in DNA based Dispersions'. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111 (1). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| McGovern, D.A., Doorley, G. W., Quinn, S.J., Whelan, A.M., Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M., Parker A. W. and Kelly, J. M.; (2007) 'Picosecond Probing of the Vibrational Spectra of Transients formed upon UV excitation of the Mononucleotide 5¿-Guanosine Monophosphate in Stacked Gtetrad Structures'. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (48). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Quinn, S., Doorley, G. W., Watson, G. W., Cowan, A. J., George, M. W., Parker, A. W. Ronayne, K. L., Towrie, M. and Kelly, J. M.; (2007) 'Ultrafast IR spectroscopy of the shortlived transients formed by UV excitation of cytosine derivatives'. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (21). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Senechal-David, K., Pope, S. J. A., Quinn, S., Faulkner, S, Gunnlaugsson, T.; (2006) 'Sensitized Near-Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence from Nd(III)- and Yb(III)-Based Cyclen-Ruthenium Coordination Conjugates'. Inorganic Chemistry, 45 (25). [DOI] [Details] | |||||||||
| Mandal, A., Fitzmaurice, D. Waghorne, E., Koll, A., Filarowski, A., Quinn, S., Mukherjee, S. ; (2004) 'Proton transfer reaction of a new orthohydroxy Schiff base at room temperature and 77 K'. Spectrochimica Acta A, 60 (4). [Details] | |||||||||
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