Lab News

13th Nov 2025: We have a new PhD! Congratulations David Sharp on defending your PhD at Imperial College London! David has been working together with Prof. Yan Liu and Prof. Matt Fuchter on the generation of photoswitchable glycans. Stay tuned! Link to post

1st Nov 2025: We welcome two new members to the TUD lab! Dr. Bárbara Sousa is a chemical biologist and joins us from the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine in Lisbon. Lea Schlöffel has just received her diploma in Food Chemistry at TUD. Off to exciting #glycotime!

16th Oct 2025: Welcome to our second TUD PhD student! Hans-Ulrich Balcke received his MSc in Biochemistry and will tackle the enzymology of introducing chemically modified monosaccharides into cell surface glycans.

1st Sep 2025: We welcome the first new PhD student in the TUD lab - welcome Friederike Marte! Friederike studied Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH Zürich and will be studying the biological application of chemical precision tools in glycobiology.

2nd Aug 2025: The lab is a union between the teams at TUD and the Francis Crick Institute in London. At TUD, we welcome our awesome lab members Dr. Anke Matura, Monique Wiegand, Inham Salloum, Elisabeth Strunk and Lisa Göbner! 

1st Aug 2025: The new Chair of Biochemistry is live! Please have a look through our websites for info on our research, team, job opportunities and teaching. Glycobiology is a fascinating field, and there is so much to do!