Category Archives: General
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
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
Presentation
PhD student Ella gave a flash presentation at the Molecular Sciences for Medicine (MoSMed) CDT conference. 15/05/2024
Biochemical Society Seminar – Stephen Wallace
We we very pleased to host Prof Stephen Wallace from Edinburgh University as part of the Biochemical Society-sponsored seminar series. A great talk about using microbes to do chemistry. 20/03/2024
Public Engagement at Beamish
Tom and Felicity were part of the Newcastle Chemistry’s outreach event at the Beamish museum. We had 5 experiment stations across the site covering all areas of Chemistry, running a carbohydrate themed activity involving glycans and tasting different sugars. 16/03/2024
International #WomenInScience Day 2024
Within Newcastle University’s chemical biology research groups, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and make a difference. A special thanks to all the women in the McAllister and Kawamura groups for their incredible contributions … Continue reading
Prize for Dimitra
Dimitra presented a poster at the North East Women in Life Sciences 2024 event in Newcastle and won the prize for best poster! Well done Dimitra! 09/02/2024
Presentation
Tom presented a 2 minute flash talk at the Royal Society Meeting of Minds Conference describing our ongoing work to better understand protein O-glycosylation. 08/02/2024
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
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