Author Archives: Tom
Lucy and Becca join the lab
Lucy and Becca joined us at the end of January for their 4th year MChem projects, which they planned before Christmas and will be working on until May. Welcome Lucy and Becca! 01/02/2024
Xmas Symposium 2023 with Kawamura Lab
We had our 2nd annual joint Christmas Symposium and lab Christmas lunch with the Kawamura group. A morning of great talks, secret santa and a festive quiz brilliantly organised by Emma, Tim and Tom from Akane’s group. 11/12/2023
Biochemical Society Seminar – James McCullagh
Pleased to host Professor James McCullagh from the University of Oxford for a research seminar as part of a series sponsored by the Biochemical Society Tom has organised. 12/12/2023
Lab Xmas Meal
We had the McAllister lab christmas meal at My Dehli in Newcastle. Left to right: Joanna, Felicity, Georgi, Dimitra, Lucy, Becca, Ella, Tom.14/12/2023
Welcome Felicity
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Felicity Frank to the group as a PDRA funded by the Royal Society.06/11/2023
Welcome Ella
We’re delighted to welcome Ella Sames to the group for her PhD. Ella will be investigating the role of GalNAc-T7 in prostate cancer03/10/2023
PhD studentship available
Fully funded PhD studentship available starting in Sept 2024 in collaboration with Prof Claire Eyers at Liverpool investigating protein post-tranlsational modifcations. This chemical biology project will use a combination of synthetic and peptide chemistry, high-throughput substrate screening and mass spectrometry. … Continue reading
Funding Awarded
We’re delighted to annouce we have received additional funding from the Royal Society to support a multi-year postdoctoral researcher position. Job advert coming soon!06/06/2023
PhD position available
We have a fully funded PhD studentship available through the MoSMed CDT, to investigate the molecular mechanisms of prostate tumor growth driven by the protein GalNAc transferase, GalNAc-T7. Starting in September 2023, this project is in collaboration with the Munkley … Continue reading
Research in the McAllister group focuses developing methods to produce glycopeptides and glycoproteins (i.e. peptides and proteins modified with carbohydrates), to investigate the roles of these fundamental biological molecules. Carbohydrates are involved in many important biological processes across all Kingdoms … Continue reading