Micklefield Lab

We would like to congratulate Heidi on obtaining her Ph.D.

We would like to welcome the following new students to the Micklefield Group. We wish them well in their studies.

Catherine Lowe

Elliot Craven

Varvara Androulaki

Alberto Carella

Saadia Irfan

Jame Wang

Abigail Herbert

We would like to congratulate Jon on obtaining his Ph.D. He is currently working at GSK

We would like to congratulate Eileen Brandenburger on obtaining her Ph.D.

The Micklefield Group would like to welcome the following new members to the team:

Lujing Ren – Visiting Academic

Duncan Smith – PDRA

Helen Taylor – PhD Student

Yingxin Zhang – PhD Student

We wish them the best of luck during their stay with us at the University of Manchester

We would like to welcome two new PDRAs to our group: Joanna Fyans and Ying Zhuo who have joined Team Biosynthesis, and will be focussing on engineering the biosynthesis of non-ribosomal lipopeptides.

We would like to congratulate Sarah Shepherd a.k.a. Sheppy, on obtaining her Ph.D. Sarah is currently working as the NPRONET Network Manager.

Some members of the Micklefield lab attended the RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-Organic Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium at the University of Warwick. Phillip Lowe was awarded a prize for his talk on Riboswitches. We all would like to thank the organizer for a great conference.

Congratulations to Dr Matthew Styles who successfully completed his PhD and will take up a PDRA position at the University of Bath in Metabolic Engineering/Synthetic Biology. Farewell also to Dr Ming-Cheng Wu (and baby daughter Ying-Xuan). Ming has been a member of the group for over five years and returns to Taiwan to continue his academic career in Chemical Biology at the National Taiwan University. Both will be missed!

6 new phd students and one new post-doc joined our lab recently. We welcome Daniel Francis, Heidi Fisk, Humera Sharif, Jonathan Latham, Eileen Brandenburger and Victoria Cronin and Dr. Michael Winn.