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).

Administrative support

Jessica Brennan provides support to Mike on both the IMProGlyco and ACROPATH projects.

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.

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

James Ross is an ARIA-funded Senior Research Fellow working with Mike and Dr Jo Galloway on the POEM project led by University of Washington in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.

Kimiho Omae is an AMED-funded PDRA from Shino Suzuki's lab at RIKEN in Japan visiting Mike's lab as part of the ACROPATH project..

PhD students

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.

Nelly Sadarova is working with Dr Tim Moorsom, Dr Jo Galloway and Mike on the ARIA-funded POEM project led by the Institute of Protein Design at the University of Washington in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.

Steven Foxcroft-Chowney is working with Mike, Dr Jo Galloway and Dr James Ross on the ARIA-funded POEM project led by the Institute of Protein Design at the University of Washington in collaboration with the University of Cambridge.

Undergraduate and MSc students

Esme Adamson is working with Mike and Lawrence on strategies for antibody conjugation

Jacob Message is working with Mike, Kimiho and Lawrence on characterising novel protein-modification enzymes

Charlie Graham is working with Mike and Kristian on new strategies for drug-delivery