Dr Michael Stephenson

Lecturer and Group Leader at UEA. Medicinal and Natural Product Chemist exploring biocatalysis. Views are my own...

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Fully-funded #PhDposition in my lab @UEA_Chemistry @uniofeastanglia Apply before 🗓️ 2nd Dec 2025 👉https://t.co/G7vkPKAsPo Making Drugs Out of Sunlight and "Thin Air" ☀️🌿🧬⚗️ with secondary supervision from @AnneOsbourn1 @JohnInnesCentre #SyntheticBiology #OrganicChemistry #PhD

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

A big thank you to the student(s) who put me forward for this award.

I didn’t win, but it was a lovely surprise to be nominated, and I really enjoyed attending the awards ceremony. It was a privilege to be included alongside so many inspiring staff and students from @UEA

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

There is a physical craft to synthetic chemistry that must be mastered - Samples from an undergraduate organic chemistry lab class - Same instructions, same materials, same lab, same day, different hands...🥼⚗️👇

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

"Joint first author of the study, Dr. Michael Stephenson, a new group leader at the University of East Anglia and visiting scientist at the John Innes Centre" also says.... funded PhD opportunity now available in his lab 👉 https://t.co/G7vkPKB0EW 👀😁

[Chemistry News @ChemistryNews]

Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight https://t.co/XUAU4Isvqo

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Delighted to share my latest paper with @AnneOsbourn1 & Charlotte Owen https://t.co/ln6sclF6tG Where we have been unveiling plants' chemical secrets without ever having to handle the plants. @UEA_Chemistry @uniofeastanglia & @JohnInnesCentre Research. #NorwichScience

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Funded #PhDstudentship in my lab @UEA_Chemistry Come explore your passion for science & expand your research horizons at the interface between #OrganicChemistry & #SyntheticBiology🥼Start Date: Oct 24 🗓️Application Deadline: 27th Nov 23
https://t.co/PXRXMOdjLQ

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Would highly recommend to any chemist interested in working in an interdisciplinary area. Fantastic opportunity. Great group to work in.

[Anne Osbourn @AnneOsbourn1]

3 x 5 year post doc positions available in my lab. Come and join us!

[Guy Polturak @realguypol]

Excited to announce that in the coming summer I'll be forming a research group at the Hebrew University's @HebrewU Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment @HUJIAgri in Rehovot, Israel

Looking for MSc and PhD students to join the group-
Please spread the word (in Hebrew)

[Enzyme Chemistry @EnzymeChemistry]

Elucidation of the pathway for #biosynthesis of saponin by J. Reed, A. Orme, @Eldemerdash83, C. Owen, L. Martin, R. Misra, S. Kikuchi, M. Rejzek, @AzaharaCMartin1, @aeharkess, J. Leebens-Mack, T. Louveau, @Stephensomycin, @AnneOsbourn1 in @ScienceMagazine https://t.co/a6AoOvzGsh

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

More components have arrived for our custom vertical farming solution. Still awaiting a rather critical one - the growth lights, but at least we know the racking fits🥳Keep watching to see if N. benthamiana will grow in a chemistry lab @UEA_Chemistry 🌱⚗️👨‍🔬 #MolecularFarming

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

The first component of my custom vertical farming solution has just arrived. Watch this space to see if we can grow Nicotiana benthamiana hydroponically in a chemistry lab @UEA_Chemistry #NicotianaBenthamiana #NaturalProductChemistry #MedicinalChemistry #Phytochemistry

[Hannah Hodgson @HannahHodgson93]

Lovely to see limonoids in the lime light 🍋 @AnneOsbourn1 @Stephensomycin @Sattely_lab

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Congratulations @HannahHodgson93 @AnneOsbourn1 & co. Amazing work during challenging times - When life gives you lemons make limonoids! Been a pleasure to be involve. Onwards to azadirachtin. Lots of interesting chemistry still to come @JohnInnesCentre @UEA_Chemistry #NorwichSci

[Hannah Hodgson @HannahHodgson93]

Over the moon that our work on limonoids is out in @ScienceMagazine. Big thanks to @AnneOsbourn1, the group and @Stephensomycin @UEA_Chemistry

In collaboration with the brilliant Jack and co @Sattely_lab, we have now discovered the pathway to limonoids🌿🍊https://t.co/tjxR1DDjYv

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

@AdnanLe26299641 @UEA_Chemistry Many thanks for your interest. Details of how to apply online can be found via the studentship page linked in the Tweet. All the best.

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Funded PhD opportunity in my lab @UEA_Chemistry Still time to apply. 🗓️Applications Close: 27th Nov 2022 🥼Start Date Oct 2023 #PhDopportunity #PhDposition #PhDstudentship #NaturalProductChemistry #SyntheticBiology
https://t.co/7bOQQtH8mw

[Prof Zoë Waller @DrZoeWaller]

Looking for a postdoc to work in our team! This is for a chemical microbiology project looking at G-quadruplex and i-motif structures in controlling expression and biosynthesis of pathways for nitrous oxide production.

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Really enjoyed teaching my first tutorials today.

Definitely learnt not to assume the room will have a functioning Whiteboard eraser.

Apologies to the next room booker if you can still see the remnants of my tropylium ions, but, I promise, most of them are on my fingers.🤦‍♂️

[Dr Michael Stephenson @Stephensomycin]

Sunset over the rotavap in my new lab @UEA_Chemistry

Like the view? Looking for a PhD (Chemistry/Biology inferface)? Still time to apply (Closes 27th Nov):

https://t.co/7bOQQtH8mw

[Zhenhua @Zhenhua_Hunan]

Strongly recommend! A professional chemist also good at biology!

[Jenny Molloy @jenny_molloy]

Apply to @Stephensomycin's group @uniofeastanglia for a PhD on "elucidating the control mechanisms of nature's most complex enzymatic reactions" - sounds like a fab project at the chemistry/biology boundary!🧪
📅Deadline 27 Nov
https://t.co/OvxNX7YLCY