{"id":317,"date":"2026-02-03T00:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/?p=317"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:21:35","slug":"north-east-women-in-chemical-biology-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/2026\/02\/03\/north-east-women-in-chemical-biology-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"North East Women in Chemical Biology Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the &#8220;Inspring Women in Chemical Biology&#8221; event series sponsored by the Biochemical Society led by Akane Kawamura and part of the Chemical Biology Special Interest Group at Newcastle University, the lab were proud to be part of the Chemical Biology Symposium: Spotlight on Women in the North East. Felicity was one of the organisers for the event, Ella presented a poster and won a prize (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/2025\/05\/13\/mosmed-conference-2025\/\">again<\/a>!) and Tom was part of a panel dicussion on supporting women in STEM. <em>More details about the event <a href=\"https:\/\/kawamuraresearchgroup.com\/blog\/2350\">here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1110-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1114-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1119-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_1140-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/files\/2026\/02\/IMG_11301-1.jpeg 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>23\/05\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the &#8220;Inspring Women in Chemical Biology&#8221; event series sponsored by the Biochemical Society led by Akane Kawamura and part of the Chemical Biology Special Interest Group at Newcastle University, the lab were proud to be part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/2026\/02\/03\/north-east-women-in-chemical-biology-symposium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-groupmembers","category-lablife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/tommcallister\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}