Are you a motivated student or postdoc looking for an exciting interdisciplinary project?

POLYMERASE MECHANISMS & ENGINEERING Group

we want to unravel the mechanisms that control and modulate the behavior of POLYMERASES AS ENZYMES AND ARE interested IN developing THEM TOWARDS novel approaches for biotherapeutic synthesis.

Oct 2026: Polymerase Meeting in Paris

Sep 2026

LAB DINNER @ Ploughman's

Mandy's leaving and Elizabeth and Abdulrahman joining dinner. We will miss you Mandy! Warm welcome to the new members!!

Feb 2026

BIOPROCESS IDLA PhD position available

Interested in joining the group? We have a PhD position available to work on fungal PolXs in chemoenzymatic oligonucleotide synthesis. See the advert here.

Jan 2026

We have a visitor..

Welcome to York, Spyros!

Spyros Letsios is visiting us from the University of Edinburgh for a few weeks as part of RSC's Researcher Development and Travel program.

Happy new year!

Celebration lunch for the Mukherjee group at Pranzo, York!

Loads of things to celebrate: new year, our paper's acceptance, Najma's success with her polymerase, Sophia's enzyme is active and Olivia is done with her summative:)

Dec 2025

Manuscript accepted!

The first paper from our group is now accepted in Nucleic Acids Research!! Congratulations to Najma, Sophia and Abhijit! It was definitely a joint effort:)

Check it out here!

Sep 2025, new joinees...