Author Archives: Tom
PhD studentship
We have a 4 year fully funded PhD studentship available in the lab, in collaboration with Clare Mahon at Durham. Deadline 31st March at midday. See link for how to apply etc. A chemical biology project investigating the recognition of … Continue reading
Izzy joins the lab
Izzy officially starts her 4th year MChem lab project with us today. Before Christmas, Izzy planned her project and undertook some skills training and will be working on her project to synthesise glycosylated amino acids until May. Welcome to the … Continue reading
Chem Bio Xmas Symposium 2024 with Kawamura Lab
It’s that time of year again and we had our 3rd annual Chemical Biology Christmas Symposium with the Kawamura group. We had a packed schedule of talks, interspersed with secret santa, a chirstmas quiz and a brand new smash hit … Continue reading
Ella tutoring
Ella is tutoring at a local Newcastle School through The Brilliant Club, a charity which enables PhD researchers to support less advantaged students to access the most competitive universities. Brilliant stuff Ella! Nov 2024
Presentation
Georgi gave a presentation at our Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry seminar series within the department. The title was: “Investigating the substrate specificity of the GalNAc transferase ppGalNAcT1” 25/09/2025
Lab Outing to GoApe!
The whole lab (Becca, Ella, Felicity, Georgi and Tom) spent the morning at Matfen GoApe! We had a great time, but didn’t get any photos as phones in pockets are not advised with a harness. Luckily we did get a … Continue reading
Becca’s back!
We’re very pleased to welcome Becca back to the lab to carry out a project over the next few weeks. 22/07/2024
Summer Graduation 2024
We were celebrating in July as our former MChem student Becca collected her MChem in Medicinal Chemistry and PDRA Felicity got to collect her PhD degree (obtained under the supervision of Mike Hall, Julian Knight and Hanno Kossen at Newcastle). … Continue reading
Chemical Biology Labs Team Building Away Day!
We held our first Chemical Biology lab away day with the Kawamura group in Durham at the beginning of June. Supported by Newcastle University SAgE Faculty’s People Fund, 20 members of the lab comprising students, research associates, technical staff and … Continue reading
Presentation
PhD student Ella gave a flash presentation at the Molecular Sciences for Medicine (MoSMed) CDT conference. 15/05/2024