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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 →

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 →

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

PhD student Ella gave a flash presentation at the Molecular Sciences for Medicine (MoSMed) CDT conference. 15/05/2024

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

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

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

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

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