We are a multidisciplinary team brings together biochemists, immunochemists, chemists, biologists, mass spectrometrists and structural biologists, with specialised expertise in carbohydrate science and glycobiology.
Click on the images below to learn more about each member of our team and their areas of expertise.
Research group members
Associate Prof. Yan Liu
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Associate Prof. Yan Liu
Associate Professor in Glycosciences and Director of the Glycosciences Laboratory
Professor Emer. Ten Feizi
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Professor Emer. Ten Feizi
Professor Emer. in Glycosciences
Dr Wengang Chai
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Dr Wengang Chai
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Antonio Di Maio
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Dr Antonio Di Maio
Manager of the Glycan Microarray Facility and of the Glycosciences Laboratory
Dr Virgina Tajadura-Ortega
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Dr Virgina Tajadura-Ortega
Research Associate
Dr Jin Yu
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Dr Jin Yu
Research Associate
Miss Ilaria Liguori
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Miss Ilaria Liguori
Dr Barbara Mulloy
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Dr Barbara Mulloy
Visiting Professor
Dr Vladimir Bokun
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Dr Vladimir Bokun
Honorary Research Associates
Dr Angelina Palma
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Dr Angelina Palma
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Lisete Silva
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Dr Lisete Silva
Honorary research associate
Dr Zhen Li
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Dr Zhen Li
Honorary research associate
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Dr Yukie Akune-Taylor
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Dr Yukie Akune-Taylor
Honorary research associate
Yibing Zhang
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Yibing Zhang
Research Technologist
Affiliated members
Dr Benjamin Schumann
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Dr Benjamin Schumann
Co-I of the Facility
Dr Alexiane Decout
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Dr Alexiane Decout
Imperial College Research Fellow
Dr Apoorva Srivastava
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Dr Apoorva Srivastava
Research Associate
Students
Dr. Yuan Chen
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Dr. Yuan Chen
ex PhD student
Miss Chelsea Choi
Miss Chelsea Choi
Master's student in Reproductive and Developmental Biology
General enquiries
Carbohydrate microarray analyses
Professor Ten Feizi
t.feizi@imperial.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 7594 7207
Dr Yan Liu
yan.liu2@imperial.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 7594 2598
Dr Antonio Di Maio
a.di-maio@imperial.ac.uk
Carbohydrate structural analyses
Dr Wengang Chai
w.chai@imperial.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 7594 2596
