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Mike Webb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Undergraduate and MSc students

Jodie Foster
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.

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