Current Members
Chief investigator:
DECRA Fellow
John Karas – novel methods for peptide ligation
Students supervised by John Karas:
Sam Paravizzini (PhD) – New methods for efficient solid phase peptide synthesis
Harry Wang (MSc) –
PhD students
Hannah Ryan – mycocyclosin-based photoaffinity probes
Yuezhou (Tom) Wu – new methods for peptide functionalisation
Denham Hopper – mycocyclosin analogues as inhibitors of CYP121
Abdullah Alosaimi – radiolabelled peptides for cancer imaging
Masters/Honours students
Natasha Salkin – peptide trifluoroborates for imaging cancer
Minyi (Tommy) Yu – functionalisation of peptide hydroxamates
Beichen Zhu – C–H functionalisation of peptides
John Hsu – mechanistic studies of mycocyclosin formation
Junyi (Simon) Hao – C–H functionalisation of peptides
Jialin (Jolene) Li – ring expansion of cyclic peptide thioamides
