MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

A blast from the past…

A blast from the past…

Look what turned up in a lab cleanup a little while ago. What is the probability of finding a gel that has lanes on it from both Jacqui *and* Joel being at the bench at the same time?!?! See it with your own eyes! I would note that the lanes with the best expression...

Lab retreat done and dusted for 2013

The annual lab retreat to Hyam’s Beach (whitest sand in the world – and possibly the squeakiest too) went off without any significant hitches last weekend. Fantastic weather, and we even had some intrepid cyclists transporting themselves the 30 km from...

Another boy off to Blighty

Morgan has fared us well now and headed off to the UK to work with Alessio Ciulli, who works on the structural biology of protein-protein interactions (sounds familiar!) and who is in the process of moving from Cambridge to Dundee. I hope Morgan has packed his winter...

Flyp’s latest paper is out…

Congrats Flyp (and Chu Wai and Ann and others…!): Stokes et al., (2013) Structural Basis of the Interaction of the Breast Cancer Oncogene LMO4 with the Tumour Suppressor CtIP/RBBP8 J Mol Biol 425, 1101-10.

Blobs

Sarah has some *very* exciting data from her new project – but it’s top secret, so you’ll have to go and ask her about it yourself…(or look at the picture on the board – and *then* ask her).