Team
Dr. Chris Spicer
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of York
Member of the York Biomedical Research Institute
PhD Students
Lydia Barber
4th Year BBSRC iCASE PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Paul Genever
N-terminal protein modification
Reuben Breetveld
4th Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Paul Genever
Photo-responsive peptides
Owen Hughes
3rd Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Drs Will Unsworth and Martin Fascione
Peptide ring expansion chemistry
Seb Grant
1st Year York Graduate Research School PhD, co-supervised with Dr Dave Boucher
Identification of caspase substrates
Laura Gherman
2nd Year BBSRC iCASE PhD, co-supervised with Dr Michael Plevin
Stabilising protein scaffolds
James Kleppen
2nd Year BBSRC White Rose DTP PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Luke Mackinder and Dr Michael Plevin
Chemical modification of algal proteins
Gabriella Holland
1st Year Departmental Studentship PhD, co-supervised with Prof. Dave Smith
Self-healing hydrogels
Lucy Anderson
1st Year Discovery Medicine North DTP, co-supervised with Drs Martin Fascione and Bill Grey
Therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Postdocs
Ksenia Stankevich
Leverhulme Trust funded
Metal-mediated protein modification
Phathu Masithi
University of York IAA funded
Therapeutics for acute myeloid leukemia
Sophie Moul
Wellcome Trust funded
Peptide-functionalised materials
Masters students
Katie Lewis
MChem student
Palladium-catalysed peptide modification
Matthew Weatherill
MRes student, co-supervised by Prof. Alison Parkin
Protein-functionalised electrodes
Alumni
PhD students
Nick Rose (2019-2022) Now PDRA at University of Geneva
Laetitia Raynal (2019-2023) Now at Bicycle Therapeutics
Postdocs
Dr Matthew Gill (2022-2023) Now PDRA at University of York
Dr Neil Scott (2021) Now PDRA at University of York
Dr Nico Seling (2020) Now patent attorny at Pearl Cohen
Dr James Donald (2020)
Masters students
Alicia Sanz-Maestro (2023-2024) Now PhD at the University of Bath
Perisa Munir (2023-2024)
Angela Ramirez (2022-2023)
Laurie Hughes (2022-2023) Now PhD at University of Southampton
Eve Tipple (2021-2022) Now PhD at University of Manchester
Tom Phillips (2021-202)
Natalia Swiatek (2020-2021) Now PhD at Imperial College London
Taylor Dixon (2020-2021)
Charis Warnock (2020-2021)