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New Read: A Bioorthogonal Precision Tool for Human N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase V
17th September 2024
A newly released paper is avaiable to read in the ACS JACS Journal... Read more
MRes Student Teresa Wins Best Presentation at 2024 Drug Discovery & Development Symposium
3rd September 2024
The annual event showcased the work of Imperial's Drug Discovery course from the last year. Excellent presentations were given by lab members Louisa and Teresa, with Teresa being awarded the best presentation award. Theresa will also rejoin the lab in October to commence her PhD studentship! Full Story
New Read: Expanding the repertoire of GalNAc analogues for cell-specific bioorthogonal tagging of glycoproteins
3rd September 2024
A newly released paper is avaiable to read in the RSC Chemical Biology Journal... Read more
Congratulations
Dr. Mia Zol-Hanlon!
25 July 2024
An extraordinary congratulations is in order for Dr Mia Zol-Hanlon, who joins the ranks of PhD graduates from the Schumann lab! Mia delivered a beautiful (with respect to visual style, narrative structure and most importantly scientific content!) exit seminar before heading into her viva where we were delighted to hear she had passed! ... Read more
Schumann Lab Hosts the First London Proteoglycan Meeting
12 June 2024
On 7th June, the lab hosted the first London Proteoglycan Meeting, with >40 attendees from the Crick, Imperial College London, UCL and King's College London and external guests Cathy Merry (Nottingham), Astrid Walrant (Sorbonne) and Jerry Turnbull (Keele). ... Read more
Ben wins Royal Society of Chemistry award!
12th June 2024
Ben Schumann, Group Leader of the Chemical Glycobiology Laboratory at the Crick and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Norman Heatley Award in recognition of brilliance in research and innovation... Full Story
Success for Lucia at the Canadian Glycomics Symposium!
29 May 2024
Our resident mass-spectrometry heroine Lucia Di Vagno delighted the group when she received an outstanding poster award at the Canadian Glycomics Symposium - Warren Workshop this week! Her poster was titled "Mapping the glycosylation sites and substrate preferences of glycosyltransferases via glycoproteomics"... Read more
EMBO Workshop: Trafficking and Glycosylation at the Golgi apparatus
25 April 2024
The Schumann lab recently sent some representatives out to Sorrento, Italy for an informative EMBO Workshop: Trafficking and Glycosylation at the Golgi apparatus. Ben delivered a talk on our latest research, and PhD students Freya Hoddle and Abdul Zafar also attended to share their projects ... Read more
Congratulations
Dr. Will Browne!
15 December 2023
The Schumann Lab saw a huge milestone today, with its first PhD student successfully completing their journey! Over the course of his project, Will pioneered the development of UDP-glucose 4-epimerase inhibitors... Read more
A New Tool to Profile Proteoglycans & Goodbye Zhen
21 December 2023
We present an exciting new preprint in which a new tool is generated to study proteoglycans; a class of glycans crucial for health and disease. This marks a stunning achievement for the paper's first author Zhen Li, who can celebrate an extraordinary tenure in the Schumann Lab!... Read more
Schumann Lab at the Beilstein Glycobioinformatics conference
23 June 2023
Our senior laboratory research scientist Lucia Di Vagno, PhD student Abdul Zafar and Ben attended the Beilstein glycobioinformatics conference in Limburg, Germany... Read more
Schumann Lab Retreat 2023
30 September 2023
Recently, the Schumann Lab embarked on their annual retreat, this time hosted in Bournemouth. The retreat was packed with informative and fun activities to further bring the group together, brainstorm future work ideas and welcome new additions to the team. The retreat started with a Leadership Sculptor session... Read more
RSC Celebrates Prof. Feizi's Legendary Career
05 April 2023
At the 2023 RSC Carbohydrate Group Spring Meeting, legendary Glycobiologist, Professor Ten Feizi, was honoured with the 2020 Haworth Prize. Prof. Feizi's award lecture took the audience through her career to date.... Read more
Ben Receives RSC Dextra Award 2023
23 June 2023
We're delighted that Ben has been awarded the RSC Dextra award 2023, provided by the RSC carbohydrate interest group! .... Read more
Schumann Lab at Glycobiology Gordon Research Conference
18 March 2023
PhD Student Bea and Ben, attended the Glycobiology Gordon Research Conference titled "Biological Roles of Glycans as Major Building Blocks of Life" from the 11th-17th March. Ben was invited to present.... Read more
A Sweet, Spiky Story
22 March 2023
Our exciting new research on the role of elaborated O-linked glycans in modulating proteolytic maturation of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein has recently been published in ACS Central Science .... Read more
ERC Grant Awarded for 'Ambitious Researchers'
28 Feb 2023
Ben Schumann is amongst three Imperial academics that have been awarded an ERC research grant to pursue 'ambitious research ideas'. The grant has been awarded to study glycans .... Read more