by Joel Mackay | May 27, 2026 | BLOG |
(Relatively) new lab member Dr Jordan Pederick – fresh from a PhD with John Bruning at U Adelaide – threw his hat in the ring at this year’s Sydney Protein Group Postdoc Prize event. In a field of five speakers giving talks on diverse topics, Jordan...
by Joel Mackay | Mar 2, 2026 | Current Lab Members |
Chen Long is a BSc Hons student with Joel who is jumping on the AI protein design train – looking to make new proteins that bind to transcriptional regulators – perhaps even in a paralogue-specific way…
by Joel Mackay | Mar 2, 2026 | Current Lab Members |
Ansh is a 2026 BSc Hons student working with Joel and Zahra to understand more about transcriptional regulation in the Varroa mite, with the goal of designing acaricides that are safer for bees and people!
by Joel Mackay | Jan 9, 2026 | Current Lab Members |
Wenhan has arrived in Joel’s lab in Jan 2026, fresh from a Masters at Imperial College in London, to start an ambitious PhD project of designing cyclic peptides using AI-driven computational approaches. If successful, this work will sit alongside our RaPID mRNA...
by Joel Mackay | Jan 7, 2026 | BLOG |
Our latest paper has just been released in Nucleic Acids Research: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1406/8406434 This paper has been masterminded by Lucien and Xavier – and presents some surprising findings on the ability of BRD4...