Welcome to the Mueller lab @ King's College London
Research in our lab focuses on using synthetic protein chemistry to elucidate how proteins are controlled by post-translational modifications. We are particularly interested in modifications of the polypeptide backbone, and how such processes are involved in molecular ageing.
We are located in the recently formed chemistry department at King's College London. Our research is generously funded by a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, jointly provided by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society.
Lab News:
2024 April
Luis is awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship (UK version) - congratulations!
2024 January
Nishant Rai joins the lab as a Research Assistant
2023 November
Greg's paper (collaboration with Seebeck Lab @ Uni Basel) is published in Angewandte Chemie (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202312104)
2023 October
Hannah Coxhead joins the lab as a MM4L PhD student (with Tavassoli & Ulmschneider labs)
Krishna Parbhu joins as a MSci Student
Boman Li joins as a MRes Student
2023 Sept
Matt wins a Poster Prize at the RSC CBBG symposium - congratulations!
2023 June
Neev wins the Style Medal & Prize for Practical Chemistry - congratulations!
2023 May
Maria Hancu joins the lab as a visiting student.
2023 April
Luis Guerra joins the lab as a postdoc.
2023 March
Jasmine's paper on a PTM control of a viral anticancer protein is published in Chemical Science (https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC04481A)
2023 Jan
Sonja Schneider joins the lab as visiting MSci student
2022 Oct
Lewis Picken, Ruqaiya Alam and Sam Fidler join the lab as PhD Students
2022 Oct
Neev Lawton joins the lab as MSci Student
2022 July
Builqis wins the Style Medal & Prize in Chemistry - congratulations!
2021 Oct
Guljannat Ablat joins the group as a K-CSC PhD Student
2021 Sept
Builqis Jahan returns to the group for her MSci project
2021 Aug
Sofia successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr Margiola!
Karola awarded with Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship - Congratulations!
2021 July
Sabrina Hossain - joint PhD student with the Politis lab - joins the group
Builqis Jahan joins the group as a KURF summer student
Tianze receives a runner-up Poster Prize at the RSC CBBG postgraduate symposium - congratulations!
2021 June
Manuel receives the prestigious RSC 2021 Norman Heatley Award
Chemistry Biology Interface Division early career award: Norman Heatley Award (rsc.org)
2021 May
Sofia and Karola's paper on 'designer' p53 is published in Chemical Science (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC00396H)
Karola receives a Poster Prize at the RSC Chemical Biology Symposium - congratulations!
2021 Mar
Niyaz Zaman - LIDo rotation student - joins the lab
2021 Feb
Dr Greg Hughes - Postdoc - joins the lab
2020 Nov
Karola successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations Dr Gerecht!
2020 Oct
Matt Hess - LIDo iCASE PhD Student - joins the lab
Yasmin Gariba-Hamilton - King's MSci student - joins the lab
2020 Sept
Tianze's paper on an autocatalytic protein backbone modification is published in Biochemistry. Great collaboration with the Politis lab at KCL (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00502)
2020 June
Olga Tereszkowska-Kaminska - King's undergraduate student - joins the lab for a (remote) summer project
2019 Dec
Jasmine's review on viral anticancer proteins is published in Cancers
https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11121975
2019 Nov
Karola wins the 2019 Daniell Prize from KCL Chemistry (jointly with Magd Badaoui & Grant Pellowe). Congratulations!
2019 Sept
Jonathan Davies - PhD Student - joins the lab
2019 June
Florence Stoffel - King's Undergraduate Research Fellow - joins the lab
2018 Sept
Rachelle Benarroch - King's MSci student - returns to the lab
2018 Aug
Book chapter on 'Chemical Protein Synthesis: Strategies and Biological Applications' published in 'Chemical and Biological Synthesis: Enabling Approaches for Understanding Biology' (Editors: Nick J Westwood, Adam Nelson)
2017 Oct
Perspective on Post-Translational Modifications of Protein Backbones published in special issue of Biochemistry 'The Future of Biochemistry'
2017 Sept
Jasmine Wyatt - PhD Student (Jointly with Tavassoli Lab @ KCL, BRC) - joins the lab
2017 Sept
Tianze Zhang - PhD Student (CSC) - joins the lab
Halime Karakoy - King's MSci Student - joins the lab
2017 June
Rachelle Benarroch - King's Undergraduate Research Fellow - joins the lab for a summer project
Daynea Wallock-Richards - Postdoc in Chemical Biology - joins the lab
2017 May
George Preston - Visiting Postdoc from KCL Environmental Carcinogenesis - joins the lab
2017 Feb
Karola Gerecht - PhD Student (LIDo) - joins the lab
2017 Jan
Sofia Margiola - PhD Student - joins the lab