MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

NHMRC, ARC and Cancer Council success

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...
Joel advances to high school

Joel advances to high school

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...
Joel goes back to primary school (again).

Joel goes back to primary school (again).

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...

Flyp and Lorna’s ECPM success

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...

Saad hands in!

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...