At the recent ASBMB annual meeting in Canberra (which was an excellent meeting, I thought – great speakers, great venue, nice size and really nice feeling), Erekle Kobhakidze (2023 Mackay lab BSc Hons student) and Zahra Falahati (Mackay lab first year PhD student) both did a most excellent job of presenting their posters – so excellent that they both picked up poster prizes for their efforts. Erekle talked about his Hons project looking at the chromatin binding proteins BRD2 and PWWP2A, whereas Zahra told people about her work starting to look at designing inhibitors of the ecdysone receptor as insecticides. Kudos to both of them! [and to the other lab members who presented at the meeting of course!]