MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Kaiya Hunter

Kaiya Hunter

2025. Second year BSc student who embarked on a Dalyell (advanced) undergraduate project in Joel’s lab (Semester 2 2025) under the guidance of Erekle. She examined the biochemical properties of the BET bromodomain protein BRD3, collecting some nice data that...
Dorothy ties the knot!

Dorothy ties the knot!

Former Mackay lab PhD student Dorothy Wai – author of such well-known studies as “The BRD3 ET domain recognizes a short peptide motif through a mechanism that is conserved across chromatin remodelers and transcriptional regulators” has recently tied...
Markus Williams

Markus Williams

2025. BSc Hons student who worked with Joel – bringing some molecular dynamics into the lab toolkit. Drove it himself mostly, because of Joel’s woeful lack of knowledge about AI and the nuts and bolts of setting up MD.