MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Kim Woollett

Kim Woollett

2019-2023. PhD student with Joel who made the jump from membrane proteins to transcription factors (and their PTMs) – very sensible! Now with CRISPR experience up her sleeve and looking to unleash it on other labs! Starting nearby with Mark White at USyd.
Dr Walter Becker

Dr Walter Becker

Austrian postdoc working collaboratively with Rich Payne in Chemistry. Came to us via Katja Petzold’s lab in Sweden and has retained his interest in doing NMR on challenging targets. Oh, and makes a mean sourdough!
Dr Karishma Patel

Dr Karishma Patel

Completed her (enormously productive) PhD with Joel in 2022 and, as of August 2024, has a postdoctoral position at Oxford with Prof Ivan Ahel. She still seems to know more about lab goings-on than Joel (you still hear “ask Karishma” fairly often…),...
Charlotte Franck

Charlotte Franck

2018-2022. PhD student and then postdoc working with Richard Payne in Chemistry and partly in collaboration with Joel. Key member of the Payne lab outpost that we’ve established in our lab space. Skillfully walked the line between being a chemist and a...