MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Xmas stroll in the Royal National Park

Xmas stroll in the Royal National Park

Joel and Jacqui took advantage of the cool weather to head down the RNP and see what the wildflower situation was like. It’s still pretty impressive – and we even spotted some native orchids with amazing dappled petals. The bridge at Audley is very...
Thu Vu

Thu Vu

Research Assistant with Jacqui – continuing the family tradition of working in the lab here after her partner Cuong completed his PhD with Joel a few years ago.
Beautiful, but CruEL…

Beautiful, but CruEL…

Well, it’s one of those classic structural biology stories… Scientist (Anjumara) purifies and crystallizes protein, gets 3-A dataset at synchrotron (with Chandrika’s help). Can’t be solved, but scientists ask cryoEM colleagues kindly and they...