June 2024
Martha has passed her viva! Congratulations Dr Simpson, and thank you Louis Luk for acting as external examiner!
May 2024
Chris Harding has left St Andrews to start his own lab in Liverpool. Good luck Chris, we will miss you!
November 2023
Qingtian Gong has joined us for a PhD funded by Tenovus Research Scotland. Welcome Qingtian!
October 2023
A lot is going on!
Martha’s paper has been accepted!!! Now published, check it out here
Rebecca Cornwell has left us to do a PhD at the University of Highlands and Islands, good luck Rebecca and thank you for the hard work on Antibiotics under our Feet!
Erin Laing has joined our group in a collaboration with Locate Bio, welcome Erin!
September 2023
We say goodbye to Saul Antonio Hernandez Martinez, and hope he comes back for another visit!
Preprint alert – Antibiotics under our feet
Ben Bruce has joined us for an MSc(Res) – welcome Ben!
August 202
We are said to say goodbye to Emmajay Sutherland, but happy she is moving on to do exciting work with Nick Riley at the University of Washington. We will miss you Emmajay! Hope you populate Nick’s lab with some pink 🙂
June 2023
Charlene has a perspective paper accepted on cyclic dipeptides and the microbiome. Well done!
Chris paper is online! Great to see it in final form.
April 2023
Saúl Antonio Hernández Martínez has joined us as a visiting scientist from Technologic Monterrey in Mexico, welcome Saul!
Saul arrives and Lynette leaves. We will miss you Lynette, and wish you all the best!
February 2023 – lots of great news 🙂
Chris got funded by Tenovus Scotland to his first grant as independent researcher, congratulations Chris!!! First of many!
Emmajay submitted her thesis! Very proud of her hard work and amazing looking figures!!!
Lynette missed us too much and came back for another couple months, welcome back!
December 2022
Lynette was afraid of the cold weather and went back to Mexico. We will miss you Lynette!
The Waters QDa arrived and was installed right before Christmas, we are so looking forward to tough assays in the future 🙂
November 2022
Posted Chris’ preprint on research Square – find it here. Very excited about this great collaboration with Marcus Bischoff and Megan Bergkessel!
September 2022
Emmajay’s paper on engineering cyclodipeptide synthases is online, and it reads and looks so so so amazing! See for yourselves!
August 2022
We completed the STEP – Summer Teams Enterprise Programme 2022 – and our small army of undergrads produced cool simple wikipedia articles to talk about Microbes. Awesome job team! Follow us on twitter to hear more about what we are up to.
July 2022
We are glad to welcome 3 Nuffield Research Placement students to the lab to work on the Antibiotics under our feet project. Check out some of their cool data here.
June 2022
We welcome Lynette Alvarado Ramirez as a PhD student in Roberto Parra’s lab at Tecnológico de Monterrey and will be a visiting scientist in the lab working some science magic to immobilise enzymes. Welcome Lynette!
May 2022
Emmajay is having a great month – got a Public Engagement Award from the University of St Andrews and a PhD Student’s choice award (2nd place for oral presentation) at the post graduate symposium. Congratulations!!!!
We say goodbye to our MBioChem student Rol-J and final year project student Alistair Blair. It was a pleasure to have you!
April 2022
We have new toys 🙂
A protein crystallisation robot from Douglas Instruments => Oryx 4 was installed as part of the BSRC crystallisation suite, fingers crossed will lead to great looking crystals!
Parts arriving for the new mass spec source to do imaging 🙂 – Professor David Harrison made this happen and will be so exciting to get started!
March 2022
We are starting to add real sequencing data to our UK map on Antibiotics under our feet
Updates will continue over the next few months, exciting data ahead!
February 2022
We are pleased to have Greice Zickuhr joining the group as a mass spec technician, welcome to Scotland!
January 2022
Alison Dickson is leaving the group to join the Harrison lab and NuCana plc as a Bioanalytical Research Manager/Research Fellow. Good luck in your future endeavours Alison!
December 2021
Emmajay’s work is now a ChemRxiv preprint! Check out here
Congratulations on the hard work Emmajay and Chris!!!
November 2021
We are pleased to have recruited Greice Zickuhr to work as a mass spec technician in collaboration with NuCana plc. She will join us int he new year 🙂
October 2021
We are pleased to have Ngọc Anh Thư Trịnh as a new PhD student joining the group, welcome to Scotland!
August 2021
Emmajay won “best poster prize” for the Struther Arnott Conference, congratulations!!!!!
Chris got the runner up prize, so overall a great day for the lab!
April 2021
Lyssa is leaving us soon to do a PhD in Dundee, best of luck Lyssa!!!
December 2020
Chris’ paper is out, read it here – https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/cb/d0cb00142b#!divAbstract
congrats Chris and Emmajay!
September 2020
Welcome Martha! One day we will have a lab lunch/coffee/beer to welcome you properly 🙂
June 2020
Rebecca is joining us, exciting times ahead despite the craziness…
new lab picture, not weird at all …
May 2020
Back to lab with Emmajay to work on a covid project, feels like we are the sole survivors of a zombie apocalipse…
We also welcomed Alison in the weirdest of circumstances, welcome Alison!!!!
March 2020
Time is warping in a weird way, hang in there everyone!
February 2020
We KILLED phage, be gone and never come back!
December 2019
Great 1st lab Christmas party! We missed Charlene, but overall had a great time!
September 2019
Lab is quickly expanding, as we welcome Charlene, Emmajay and Lyssa!
May 2019
It is good to be back to lab! Chris was used to having the lab all to himself 🙂
December 2018
Life just became harder and cuter in almost equal measures as I welcomed a daughter (Julia)
August 2018
Chris Harding is the brave first member of the group, welcome Chris!!!
June 2018
Lab starts, excited to buy our first pipettes and colourful racks!!!!