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)