Group

Tom E. McAllister

Tom is currently a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the School of
Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University.

He completed a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Leeds in 2008,  staying on in Leeds to undertake a PhD with Mike Webb investigating the protein post-translational  modification phosphophistidine and later working as a post-doctoral researcher with Bruce Turnbull engineering protein nanostructures through  carbohydrate-protein interactions.
After a stint as a Teaching Fellow in Organic and Biological Chemistry at the University of York, in 2014 he moved to the University of Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher with Akane Kawamura developing an mRNA-display cyclic peptide discovery platform.
He relocated to Newcastle University when the group moved in 2019 and began his independent career in 2022 as a URF
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Georgi Trifonov

Georgi is originally from Bulgaria and completed an MSc in Drug Chemistry at Newcastle in 2022 before starting his PhD studies in the group. Georgi is developing mRNA peptide screening approaches for GalNAc transferases.

Ella C. Sames

Ella grew up in Birmingham and graduated from the University of Manchester with an MChem in 2023. She joined the McAllister lab in September 2023 as a PhD student looking at the in vitro ribosomal incorporation of sugars into peptides. Outside of the lab, Ella enjoys playing the viola in the university orchestra.

Felicity J. Frank

Felicity grew up in Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, and graduated from Newcastle University in 2018 with an Mchem degree in chemistry. She then completed her PhD at Newcastle University under the supervision of Dr Michael J. Hall and Dr Julian G. Knight, working on point-to-helical chirality control within BODIPY systems. Felicity continued her work with Dr Hall to complete a 1-year postdoctoral research assistant position investigating selective chemical modifications of complex natural products. In November 2023, Felicity joined the McAllister group as a postdoctoral research associate, involving the synthesis of glycosylated amino acid building blocks to develop well defined proteins. In her spare time, Felicity enjoys playing the piano and cooking.
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