People

Mike Webb

Mike Webb is a Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Prior to appointment to the University in 2007 as a lecturer in Chemical Biology, he obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Chris Abell (2004) and undertook post-doctoral work with Prof. Steve Benkovic (Penn State, 2004-6) and Prof. Alison Smith (Cambridge Plant Sciences, 2006-7).

Post-Doctoral Research Associates

Darren Machin is an EIC-funded PDRA working with Mike on the IMProGlyco project.

Lawrence Collins is an IAA/MRC-funded PDRA working on the new ACROPATH collaboration with Riken and JAMSTEC led by Professor Paul Beales.

Martin Walko is a IAA-funded PDRA working with Mike on commercialisation of the lab's sortase technology.

Kristian Hollie is an EIC-funded PDRA who will be working with Mike on the IMProGlyco project.

PhD students

Jodie Foster is an EPSRC-funded student who is working with Megan Wright and Mike on unusual protein phosphorylation.

Jake Wheeler is a BBSRC-funded PhD student working with Mike, Richard Bayliss and Megan Wright to develop new probes of histidine phosphorylation in eukaryotes.

Jacob Webb is a BBSRC/Syngenta-funded PhD student working with Megan Wright and Mike on function of fungicides.

Ollie France is a PhD student working with Paul Beales and Mike on vesicle encapsulation.

Maryam Ishmael is a PhD student working with Bruce Turnbull and Mike on strategies to interface proteins and synthetic materials.

Kin-On (Anton) Choy is a PhD student working with Professor Paul Taylor and Mike on the evolution of pterin biosynthesis.

Diana Gaman is a PhD student working with Dr Briony Yorke and Mike on the time-resoluved studies of photoproteins.

Calum MacRae is a PhD Student working with Professor Paul Beales and Mike on the ACROPATH project.

Amy Smith is a BBSRC-YBDTP student working with Dr Jamie Blaza (York), Professor Dani Ungar (York), Dr Chris Macdonald (York) and Mike on structural aspects of Golgi processing.

Undergraduate and MSc students

Isobel Smith is an MNatSci student working with Mike to develop new strategies for sortase-mediated protein labelling.

Kora Franklin is an MNatSci student working with Mike to develop new strategies for sortase-mediated protein labelling.

Oliver Ashworth is an MNatSci student working with Mike and Adam Clayton to develop new strategies to optimise sortase-mediated protein labelling.