by Joel Mackay | Nov 8, 2020 | BLOG, Current Lab Members |
Following a PhD in Brazil and postdoctoral time with Ray Norton at Monash, Karol has joined Joel’s lab – bring expertise in protein biochemistry and structural biology (NMR even!) to dive into the mechanisms underlying transcriptional regulation. She also...
by Joel Mackay | Nov 4, 2020 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
…which means New Bike Day in bike geek lingo… Joel has spent a bit of time (well, quite a bit of time) building up a new all-road touring bike based on a custom Ti frame built by titanproduct in China. Kitted out with an old Ultegra crankset (+38T...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 20, 2020 | Structure Gallery |
[ PDB file ] [ PubMed link ] This non-native structure corresponds to a fragment of the CH1 domain of CBP. Although the CH1 domain in its native form binds 3 zinc ions (Dames et al, PNAS 2002, 99, 5271-5276), this shorter domain binds only one zinc ion, through a...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 15, 2020 | BLOG |
Priya Thaivalappil – who worked with Joel as a Research Assistant way back in 2014 – is now the proud mother of a bouncing (well, hopefully not bouncing too much) baby boy named Neil. He looks like a handful…! Congratulations Priya and thanks very...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 13, 2020 | BLOG |
A big paper for us – out now here! Working with Louise Walport and Toby Passioura, who were themselves working with Hiroaki Suga at the University of Tokyo at the time, we have used Suga’s RaPID version of mRNA display to discover cyclic peptide inhibitors...