MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Maryam submits!

Maryam submits!

Maryam looks slightly dazed for good reason – she has just handed in her PhD thesis – well inside the time allowed. Along the way, she decided that moving country to do a PhD wasn’t sufficiently challenging and so upped the stakes by becoming a...

Efe takes to the great outdoors

Just had some correspondence with Efe Isilak, a bright spark who spent time in the lab a few years ago, who wanted to let us know that much as he loves science, he felt like he couldn’t spend his life in an indoor job – so of course he bought a farm! Took...

Our Peppy VR paper hits the airwaves!

Our great collaboration with David Doak, Jane Allison, Juliet Gerrard and Gareth Denyer is now out in Protein Science here . Peppy VR is a Unity application written by David (of Goldeneye fame), advised on by Juliet, Jane and myself and tested in real-life teaching...

The 800 MHz spits out its first HSQC!

Woo-hooo – the new Bruker Avance 3 800-MHz NMR spectrometer recorded its first 15N and 13C HSQC spectra today, so we have taken our first steps in the ultra-high-field world. Exciting! The cryosystem and probe will be installed over the next 10 days or so, and...