Group news

09/2025: David joined the group as a PDRA this month, funded by the EnzAct BBSRC prosperity partnership. Welcome to the team Dave!

06/2025: Tom presented his work at the Keele Chemistry PGR symposium, and won the best talk prize! Well done Tom! He also presented a flash presentation at ESBOC last week.

05/2025: We say farewell to Alberto this month, who has been with us as a PDRA working on polysaccharide bioprocessing. Thanks for all your hard work and being a great team member Alberto!

05/2025: Tom presented his work at the Next Gen Biocat meeting in Milan. On the same day his work was accepted for publication in React Chem Eng! You can read about his flow synthesis of UDP-GlcNAc here!

04/2025: We have a PDRA position available in our group, as part of the EnzAct Prosperity Partnership! Deadline 01/06/2025, apply here. Get in touch with Seb for more information on the post!

04/2025: Our MRes student Aimee presented at the SCI UG symposium and won the runner up prize for her talk on chemoenzymatic synthesis of pyranose derivatives! Well done Aimee!

09/2024: Welcome to the group several new colleagues: Andrea is re-joining for her PhD, and Jana is a new PhD student! Aimee, Alistair and Joey are also joining the group as masters students for this academic year. Welcome all!

09/2024: A collaborative paper with Prof Nick Turner is out in ACS Catalysis. The multifunctionality of IREDs is further demonstrated with multiple reactions demonstrated in a single pot. See the work here.

08/2024: The final paper from Alice’s project is out in Organic Letters now! A nice one-pot alcohol oxidase-Wittig reaction entirely in water. With Liam as well, the first paper of his PhD! Well done both!

06/2024: Two new papers out from the group this month! One from the groups first MChem Lauren, showing how nitroreductase can be used for fragment generation. The second is a perspective, written with colleague Becky Ruscoe, about flow biocatalysis and the impact of technology in recent years. Check them out!

06/2024: Tom and Chris were both awarded prizes at the Keele and Manchester PGR conferences for their oral and poster presentations, respectively. Well done both!

06/2024: Seb presented the groups work at the Go With The Flow conference in Cardiff, and then at the University of Manchester.

06/2024: Alberto joined the group as a PDRA on the BBSRC prosperity partnership with Unilever.

05/2024: Tom presented his work at NextGenBiocat in Crete.

02/2024: There is a postdoctoral research associate position available with us and Prof Gavin Miller. The project is a collaboration with Unilever, UCL, the University of Manchester and the University of Liverpool, funded by the BBSRC.

02/2024: We have a new PhD studentship available for a 09/2024 start. The project, which will focus on enzymatic approaches to surfactant-like molecules and derivatives, is in collaboration with Prof Gavin Miller and industry partners Unilever.

12/2023: Alice passed her viva!!! Well done Dr Wahart, the first PhD student of the Cosgrove group! Thanks very much to Prof Nick Turner and Dr Mark Skidmore for examining. Keep in touch Alice!

11/2023: We have a new PhD studentship available for a 09/2024 start. The project, which will focus on the development of glycoconjugate synthesis in continuous flow, is in collaboration with Prof Gavin Miller and industry partners Iceni Glycoscience.

10/2023: Well done to Alice and Simon who have published our new article in ChemBioChem looking at using alcohol oxidases for bioremediation!

10/2023: We have a new website!

09/2023: Welcome to the group Apisit who has started his PhD with us, and Andrea and Matthew who will both work for the next year with us as Masters students.

Dr Sebastian Cosgrove

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s.cosgrove@keele.ac.uk

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