Our recent EPSRC-New Horizons funding success was announced formlly
Professor Gavin Miller from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences; and Professor Jerry Turnbull and Dr Thomas Torode from the School of Life Sciences, have each secured grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council – a branch of UK Research...
Summer student Andrea Zurdo yesterday completed a fantastic research presentation as part of the School Seminar series, congrats Andrea!
Andrea collecting her certificate for completing her School sponsored summer research project. Andrea is second from the right! Her research involved the production and isolation of our favourite protein, GMD. Alongside this, Andrea also completing some challenging...
Alice and Jonathan’s collaborative paper with the Field group has been published in BJOC, congrats all
Here we continue our exploration of the GDP-mannose dehydrogenase from P. aeruginosa, targeting the synthesis and evaluation C6-modified GDP-Man sugar nucleotide tools. Read more about this here.
New PhD students, Jacob, Lauren and Liam have joined us, alongside MChem and MRes researchers Adam and Ethan. Welcome all!
Read their profiles in the Group Info section
Funded by Keele, summer student Andrea Zurdo has joined us
Andrea joins the GMD project, working on enzyme expression and purification alongside some chemical synthesis with nucleosides
Conor’s paper exploring the conformational changes within S-glycosides published in ACS Omega
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.2c02070
PDRA position available – joint venture with Durham and Cardiff Universities
Research Fellow in Carbohydrate & Polymer Synthesis, 18 months The post is funded by EPSRC and a collaboration with Dr Clare Mahon (Durham) and Dr Elaine Ferguson (Cardiff) to explore the development of next generation proteoglycan mimics. The project will involve...
A new PDRA joins the group
Dr Tapasi Manna has joined the group from Anup Misra's group at the Bose Institute. Welcome Tapasi!
Recent external presentations from the group
Several presentations from the group for March and April '22. Firstly, Caecilie presented her nucleoside analogue research at the RSC Fluorine PGR meeting (online) and also a poster at the RSC Chemical Biology PDR meeting in York. Gavin presented aspects of the...
Mieke’s Paper on nucleoside analogue synthesis published on the front cover of OBC
Chemical synthesis of 4’-thio and 4’-sulfinyl pyrimidine nucleoside analogues.