MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

BLOG

Flojo – a life

With great sadness, Jacqui and Joel shepherded Flojo to her last big sleep at the vet on the weekend. She was with us for 20 of her 22 years and was a part of our lives for so long. We were so lucky to have her as a companion. The house seems much quieter today - even though there are still three more cats sharing the space. Have compiled a (very) small subset of the photos we've taken of her over the years...

Xavier graduates (again!)

Joel managed to miss the graduation by being on the other side of the world but Jason was a more than worthy replacement - ...and Jessica and Karishma also sneaked into the academic procession (I like it - nice work!) so that Xavier got extra applause when he went up on stage. Congratulations Xavier - a big milestone!

Parenthood comes knocking again for Jason!

We welcome Isabelle into the world - and more specifically into Jason and Mel's house. They are currently trying to work out a routine that allows all five members of the household to achieve their goals (e.g., getting fed, sleeping, doing mass spectrometry etc) in an efficient manner. I must confess that I'm not entirely convinced that Matthew (behind) has signed on to give the enterprise his full support yet. 🙂

It’s raining babies!

It’s raining babies!

Recent PhD graduate Mehdi and his wife Diba have just welcomed a new family member - their daughter Rosha who was borne at 00:34 on 9 August this year. All are healthy and raring to go on their latest project. And you thought the NuRD complex was challenging,...

Welcome to Adnan Shaik!

Welcome to Adnan Shaik!

Dr Anjumara Shaik, who has been working with our collaborator Alyson Ashe on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, has just become a new mother on 3 June - and here you can see her husband Asif Pasha and her new son Adnan (who doesn't look that pleased about...