MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Joel ‘appears’ on the radio…

…talking to ABC702 (which I know you all listen to) to explain the sport of rogaining. Of course, it was at 6:10 am on a Saturday morning, so not many of you might have heard it. Because I know you’ll be gutted to have missed it, you can listen to it here...

Jason wins talk prize

Jason gave a talk on his NuRD complex work at the recent “Proteomics and beyond” symposium hosted by APAF at Macquarie University and, in his first conference oral presentation, impressed the judges enough to be awarded the prize for best talk. Sterling...
New lab baby!

New lab baby!

Thilo and Vanessa, living in Basel, have just become the proud parents of baby Quinn (hopefully not named after the slightly dodgy detective in Dexter). Congratulations to both of them! I’m trying to think how many that is now. If we don’t count Kate and...

Mitchell hits the big time in Berkeley

Mitchell O’Connell, who completed his PhD with Joel in 2013 has had a taste of success in the US with a first-author paper in Nature on work that he spearheaded in his postdoctoral position with Prof Jennifer Doudna in the Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology at...