MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Former lab member becomes a dad

Former lab member becomes a dad

Gonzalo Durante (Gonn), a visitor to the lab from Spain in 2007 (wow – time flies!) had a busy week last July, when he (a) got married, (b) defended his PhD thesis (successfully) and (c) became a father. You can see the whole family. Now, *that* was a stressful...
Now *this* is an insect!

Now *this* is an insect!

You thought that it was the snakes, scorpions, sharks and spiders that you had to worry about in Australia. No one warned you about the monster stick insects though… check this out. You could put a leash on it and take it for a walk! The body was 20 cm...

Two more visiting academics in the lab

A/Profs Kylie Walters and Hiroshi Matsuo are visiting the lab for 2 months from the University of Minnesota. Kylie and Hiroshi are protein NMR spectroscopists with interests in areas including protein-nucleic acid interactions and ubiquitin structure and...