Postdoctoral Research Associate in Synthetic Chemistry and Plant Natural Product Biosynthesis at University of York University of York in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity: Sustainable Synthesis for Medicinal Chemistry in 3-Dimensions: Bioisosteres, PROTAC Linkers, Scaffold Hopping and Unnatural Amino Acids. This project is offered through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP CDT), a fully funded 4-year PhD programme jointly delivered by the Universities of Oxford and York. The project is primarily based at the University of York , Department of Chemistry, and is supervised by Prof Peter O’Brien wi...

Funded PhD project at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom , focused on Basidiomycota fungi , natural products biosynthesis , fungal genetic engineering , and engineering biology . The project aims to validate an engineering biology toolkit in Pleurotus ostreatus (oyster mushroom) by reconstructing biosynthetic pathways for selected bioactive natural products from Basidiomycota fungi. Research activities include cloning biosynthetic genes into expression vectors, fungal transfor...

P21) Sustainable diversification of therapeutic peptides via amino-carbonylation is a fully funded PhD project at the University of York , delivered through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis for a Healthy Planet (CSHP CDT) with joint training across York and Oxford. The project focuses on peptide chemistry , organic chemistry , synthetic chemistry , and chemical biology . The research will develop new strategies to chemically modify peptides via late-stage, transition ...

PhD opportunity: Development of new-to-nature enzymatic reactivity for applications in organic synthesis at the University of Cambridge , Department of Chemistry, in the Mateo Sanchez Lab. The project sits at the interface of chemistry and biology and focuses on discovering and developing new-to-nature reactivity using engineered enzymes. Research activities include substrate synthesis using traditional synthetic chemistry, screening campaigns to identify and optimise enzymatic activity, structu...

PhD opportunity at the University of St Andrews in the School of Biology / School of Chemistry, working on design, synthesis, and mechanism of action of inhibitors of the human enzyme DNPH1 (2′-deoxynucleoside 5′-phosphate N-hydrolase 1). This project sits at the interface of Biochemistry , Structural Biology , Medicinal Chemistry , Organic Synthesis , and Chemical Biology . DNPH1 is a nucleotide-sanitizing enzyme, and the project aims to design potent and selective inhibitors and elucidate how ...