by Joel Mackay | Oct 30, 2013 | BLOG |
The lab was lucky enough to pick up a few grants in this year’s annual funding bunfight. Joel was awarded an NHMRC grant with Tom Gonda and Dave Segal aimed at looking at the nucleic-acid binding properties of human transcription factors and a second one (with...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 21, 2013 | BLOG |
Last week, Joel responded to a request from the science department at Ascham School in Edgecliff to visit and give a talk on protein folding – the same talk that he gave at MLC in Burwood a few months ago. Joel is talking with the teachers about additional...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 15, 2013 | BLOG |
Joel has been involved with the CSIRO’s Scientists in Schools program for 5 or so years now, and recently visited his long-term partner school – Strathfield North Public School – spending 2 days with the year 5 and 6 students teaching them about the...
by Joel Mackay | Aug 7, 2013 | BLOG |
At the recent East Coast Protein Meeting, Philippa won the ComBio award based on her talk and CV – entitling her to travel to ComBio in Perth this year to present her work to a wider audience. At the same time, Lorna picked up the postdoc poster prize for...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 1, 2013 | BLOG |
Saad has just summited that seemingly gargantuan mountain of thesis writing and handed in a very nice looking PhD thesis on interactions within his favourite protein complex. Now, time to take a breather and try to remind his family what he looks like! Well done Saad...