News
April 2025 Excited that our new paper is now out in JACS Au, led by Lydia and Ksenia! If you’re interested in selective protein modification, check out how we studied how reagent structure affected N-terminal targeting
March 2025 The first patent from the group just got filed, based on fantastic work by Ksenia! Watch this space for a very exciting paper hopefully coming soon…..
November 2024 Congratulations to Dr Lydia Barber, who becomes the 3rd PhD student from the group to pass her viva! Here she is with examiner Chris Coxon from Edinburgh. Lydia did fantastic work studying N-terminal modification chemistries during her PhD, and is heading to Vienna for a postdoc at TU Wien!
September 2024 The start of the academic year, so lots of new starters this week. Welcome to Gabriella Holland and Lucy Anderson who have started as PhD students in the group, and to Katie Lewis who joins as an MChem!
July 2024 Good luck to our MChem students, Alicia and Perisa, who graduated today. It’s been great to have you with us for the last 8 months, good luck for the future
January 2024 Welcome to our new PhD student Seb Grant who started this week. Seb will be working with Dave Boucher in York Biology, studying the complex world of caspases
October 2023 Lots of new starters this month. James Kleppen returns to the group to start his PhD, as does new student Laura Gherman, while MRes Matthew Weatherill and MChems Alicia Sanz Maestro and Perisa Munir also join. Welcome to you all!
September 2023 Welcome to Phathu Masithi who joins us as a postdoc from the University of Cape Town funded by a University of York Impact Accelerator Award. We’re excited to have you join us!
September 2023 Congratulations to Laetitia on passing her PhD viva! Laetitia was our joint-first PhD student in the group and played an invaluable role in getting us off the ground, we will miss her a lot! Good luck for your next role at Bicycle Therapeutics
June 2023 Congratulations to Masters students Laurie and James for finishing their undergrad degrees! Straight on to the next ones, James will be coming back to do his PhD with us next year, while Laurie moves to Birmingham for a PhD with Andy Wilson.
May 2023 Welcome to Sophie Moul who joins us as a postdoc from the University of Leeds, funded by the Wellcome Trust. We’re excited to have you in the group!
May 2023 Congratulations to Nick on passing his PhD viva! Nick did fantastic work during his time in the group developing a new FRET platform for studying the chemistry of ortho-boronoaldehydes and other fast bioconjugation reactions. The platform even allows us to study reactions in complex media such as serum! You can check out his work in Chemical Science.
Jan 2023 Welcome to Ksenia Stankevich who joins us as a postdoc from Montana State University, funded by the Leverhulme Trust!
Jan 2023 Our new group website is live! We’ll be keeping the world updated with everything going on in our group, and our efforts to develop new chemistries and materials at the University of York