by Joel Mackay | Mar 20, 2024 | BLOG |
Jakob Helmbrecht bravely ventured down under, risking crocodile attacks and leech bites to work in the lab under the tutelage of Clement and Lucien for 5 months – and he is now setting sail back to Germany to polish his Masters off by embarking on a little more...
by Joel Mackay | Mar 1, 2024 | BLOG |
Michael, a BSc Hons student in the lab in 2012, now has an independent group leader position at the highly regarded John Innes Center for Plant Science in the UK. He has just reported his structure of the RNA polymerase from plant plastids – in a paper in Cell...
by Joel Mackay | Feb 29, 2024 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
We ventured out into the lower Blue Mountains for a day hike on Sat 24 Feb. The forecast was that there might be some rain. And there was. The first couple of hours were persistent – though not heavy – rain. Fortunately the canopy protected us from some...
by Joel Mackay | Dec 6, 2023 | BLOG |
We recently had a camera crew in the lab from Horticultural Innovation Australia. They are providing some funding for our work to design new, selective pesticides targeting the Varroa mite that has made its way to Australian in the last year or so and is causing much...
by Joel Mackay | Dec 6, 2023 | BLOG |
Several lab members took the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the NSW chapter of the Aus and NZ Society for Cell and Molecular Biology – which was held at Uni of Sydney a couple of weeks ago. Posters were presented and Lucien impressed them...
by Joel Mackay | Dec 6, 2023 | BLOG |
At the recent ASBMB annual meeting in Canberra (which was an excellent meeting, I thought – great speakers, great venue, nice size and really nice feeling), Erekle Kobhakidze (2023 Mackay lab BSc Hons student) and Zahra Falahati (Mackay lab first year PhD...