Non-Natural Selection of Carbohydrate-Based Receptors

Carbohydrates play vital roles in biological systems but our ability to study them is currently limited by a lack of efficient methods for their synthesis. This project aims to develop a new biotechnological approach for the synthesis of carbohydrate oligomers using template molecules to select products from enzymatic reactions that would not naturally be produced. The grant supports the research for 5 years and recruitment of two PhD students and two postdocs.