Emma Cawood joins the project
Emma has recently joined the PoPPI project as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. She is working on peptide based inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.
Amy Rees
Adam Nelson visits Greenhead College
Adam Nelson recently visited Greenhead College in Huddersfield to talk to Chemistry A-level students about molecular shape and biological activity.
David Andrews talks about PPIs at ELRIG
David Andrews recently spoke at ELRIG on the topic of understanding and manipulating protein-protein interactions using chemical biology approaches. A video interview with David for the Scientists’ Channel, in which he explains PPIs, can be viewed here: https://thescientistschannel.com/david-andrews
Emily Baker joins the project
Emily has recently joined the POPPI team as a Postdoctoral Researcher based in Dek Woolfson’s group at the University of Bristol, where she is working on perturbing protein-protein interactions with peptide inhibitors.
David Andrews School Visit
In March 2019, David Andrews visited Northgate High School Ipswich (his alma mater) to talk to a group of sixth-form students at a careers enrichment lunchtime meeting. During the session, David talked about his career journey from school to his position as Associate Director of Oncology Chemistry, Research & Development at AstraZeneca. He then explained, at a conceptual level, how molecules are designed, using PoPPI’s 3-D models of proteins to help him. For example, he explained the ‘Lock-and-Key’ theory of drug action. The students really enjoyed playing with the models … read more >
Aisha Jabeen Syed joins the project
Aisha has recently joined the PoPPI project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in synthesis and chemical biology. She is working on small molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.
Sergio Celis joins the project
Sergio Celis has recently joined the project as a postdoctoral research associate working on the development of small-molecule and peptide based inhibitors of protein-protein interactions.
Suzanne Renwick joins the project
Suzanne has joined the programme as a first year PhD student having spent some time in industry after completing her Masters Degree in Chemistry with Drug Discovery at the University of Strathclyde.
Matt Foulkes joins the project
Matt has recently joined the project as a postdoctoral research associate, having recently completed his PhD at Sheffield.
Kristina Paraschiv wins CBBG PGR Symposium poster prize
Congratulations to Kris on winning a poster prize at the RSC Chemical Biology and Bio-organic Group Postgraduate Symposium on 10 May 2018. The Symposium, hosted at the University of Leeds, was an opportunity for early career scientists from a broad range of chemical biology backgrounds to come together, share their work and discuss the latest research. Kris’s poster on experimental validation of hot residue predictions for β-strand mediated protein-protein interactions made an impression on the judges with its multidisciplinary emphasis. Kris has been with PoPPI since the start of the … read more >