MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Hyams Beach, 2017

Hyams Beach, 2017

The annual lab pilgrimage. Mehdi did plenty of camerawork this time – as did Athina ‘Selfie’ Manakas. Mehdi – I hate to break it to Diba, but we saw loads of kangeroos just after you left…see last photos. Admittedly we had to go down to...
Graduation, May 2017

Graduation, May 2017

We had multiple graduands today – Dorothy with her PhD (biggest hooray!), Matt, Gabrielle and Anthony with their Hons (big hooray!) and even some sneaky Pharmacology folks muscling in on the...
Bogong to Hotham 2017

Bogong to Hotham 2017

It has been 15 years or so since I’d run the Bogong to Hotham ultramarathon down in the Victorian Alps. I’ve always maintained that it is the most scenic ultra I’ve ever run in Australia, so I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to do it...

Kangaroo creek outing

Given the temperature today, I thought I’d head down to the Royal National Park and spend the morning wading down Kangaroo Crreek from Waterfall to Karloo Pool. Water was refreshing but almost too warm at Karloo! Then a trot back up to Heathcote and along the...

We had a Ball!

AMOEBA ball was last night – with its theme of Under the Sea. Huge amount of work by Caitlyn, Taylor, Vania and the rest of the committee went into making a thoroughly enjoyable evening with jellyfish costumes aplenty! Photos please…