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 is a IAA/MRC-funded PhD student working on commercialisation of the lab's sortase technology while preparing to start work on the new ACROPATH collaboration with Riken and JAMSTEC led by Professor Paul Beales.

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.

Undergraduate and MSc students

Rachel Fox is an MSc Drug Design and Discovery student working with Mike and Lawrence Collins to develop new strategies for sortase-mediated protein labelling.

Milly-Charlesworth Constable is an RSC-funded undergraduate student working with Mike and Darren Machin to develop new strategies to label proteins.