by Joel Mackay | Oct 13, 2020 | BLOG |
A big paper for us – out now here! Working with Louise Walport and Toby Passioura, who were themselves working with Hiroaki Suga at the University of Tokyo at the time, we have used Suga’s RaPID version of mRNA display to discover cyclic peptide inhibitors...
by Joel Mackay | Sep 24, 2020 | BLOG |
Former lab member Jason Schmidberger (postdoc 2015-6) has packed up his Akubra (and his family) and made a big move to the UK to join the drug discovery alliance and consulting company Evotec. Looks like an exciting company and we look forward to hearing from him what...
by Joel Mackay | Sep 14, 2020 | BLOG |
Michael – an Hons student in the lab in 2012 – has been extra productive in his postdoc in Strasbourg lately. Not only has he just had a paper come out in Science this week showing the interaction between bacterial RNA polymerase and the ribosome (the...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 31, 2020 | BLOG |
This week’s edition of Science magazine features an article on which Kaavya Krishna Kumar – PhD student with Dave Gell when he was here in our unit – is first-equal author. The paper describes the cryoEM structure of the glucagon receptor bound to a...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 10, 2020 | BLOG |
Always a big milestone in the PhD journey, Jessica Zhong has clicked the upload button (which isn’t quite the same as the old days with the endless photocopying and page juggling, but still…) and submitted her thesis (and now is an expert on definite...