MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Taylor graces the small screen again

Taylor graces the small screen again

In the latest installment of her hit show on Channel 7 – Get Clever – Taylor shows off her fire-making skills for Australia’s youth. You can check it out here (click the photo to access the link…) – look at about 2:20. 

Marylène has been extra busy…

Not only has she been planning a wedding, but she’s been publishing senior author papers too. Here is her paper in J Mol Biol describing the combinatorial design of a nanobody that can recognized structured RNA molecules: Marylène’s paper! A nice...
Marylène et Mathieu se marient

Marylène et Mathieu se marient

Lab alumnus and phage display aficianado Marylène – who has returned to her native Belgium to forge her research career – recently married her beau Mathieu in what looks to have been a very stylish event. Marylène looked even happier than she was in the...
Showing off the Royal National Park

Showing off the Royal National Park

Tanja Mittag from St Judes in Memphis stopped off in Sydney to give a seminar after being an invited speaker at the Lorne Protein Conference this week. Her work on liquid droplets is very interesting indeed – and it’s a field that is really just beginning...
Super-duper HSQC titration data

Super-duper HSQC titration data

Karishma has been busily recording HSQC spectra for a whole set of protein-peptide interactions we’re looking at (let’s see – there are 18 peptides and 6 proteins – so she has about 108 titrations to do if we go the whole hog). So far, a decent...