MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Almost a lab baby…

Almost a lab baby…

Nick Shepherd, who recently relocated from Sydney to Melbourne, has just become the proud father of Leo Saska Shepherd. Mother Ivana and baby Leo are doing just fine and Nick is learning some new skills to go with the ones he has in the lab…Congratulations...

Mitch honoured by ASBMB

Mitch O’Connell, who handed in his PhD in 2013 and then headed off to Berkeley to work with Jennifer Doudna, has won the Boomerang Award from ASBMB, which is presented to a young expat Aussie to allow them to come back to attend ComBio and to give a talk in one...

Wilfred is off to the Big Apple

Wilfred Leung, who did Hons with Joel in 2007 and has since then sampled both Vet School and medical research, has won a PhD place at Cornell in New York (not quite the Big Apple, but a stone’s throw from it), starting this August. Hard to get these places, so...

Neil’s Lorne’s success

Neil nabbed one of the poster prizes at this year’s Lorne Protein Conference. Might have even been just about the only NSW poster prize from the 20 they announced! Well done Neil! Your shout, I reckon.