Author Archives: Tom

Paper

We’ve published our first paper as a research group! We describe a short and economical synthesis of Fmoc-SPPS compatible glycosylated amino acids. Felicity led the project and Becca contributed during her summer studentship. The article is now available online in … Continue reading

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MoSMed conference 2025

We had strong representation from the group at the MoSMed conference in 2025 held in Durham. Georgi gave an oral presentation and Ella presented a poster, winning the prize for best poster. Congratulations Ella! 17/04/2025

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Tom recognised as an ‘Outstanding reviewer’ for RSC Chemical Biology

23/04/2025

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International Women’s Day 2025

Ella, Felcitiy and Izzy busy making important contributions to science. 10/03/2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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