MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Boys bound for Blighty

Herman and Michael have both succeeded in their quest to leave southern climes for PhDs in the UK. Herman has been awarded a Wellcome Fellowship to fund his PhD at the University of York with Fred Antson,, starting later this year. Michael won a scholarship to fund...

Katschi gets the final go-ahead

Katschi has had the final stamp of approval on her PhD thesis, and will be handing in the absolutely final, bound and authorized copy this week, crossing her fingers to make the April graduation. I’m guessing she’s quite pleased about that…

Herman is a winner too!

In a symbolic event for our historically NMR-focused lab, Herman has won a poster prize at the Asian Crystallography Conference that was held in Adelaide last week. The meeting also featured the Bragg Symposium commemorating the contribution made by the...

Morgan wins the SPG Thompson Prize!

Tonight, the Sydney Protein Group had their annual Thompson Prize event, pitting PhD students from around the region against each other in 10-minute talks. We had Mitch and Morgan going head to head with students from a range of places, and in a tough context Morgan...