MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Young Investigator Award for David

David Jacques, who has spent a year with us (after a PhD with the Trewella/Guss labs) working wonders with crystals and small angle X-ray scattering, won a Young Investigator Award at the 2012 Lorne Protein Conference. In his award talk, David presented...

Poster Victories at Lorne Proteins

Soumya Joseph, Kaayva Kumar and Vanessa Morris all won poster prizes at the Lorne Conference for Protein structure and Function. We’re very proud of them all. A bonus this year is that winning the prizes makes them eligible for winning a sponsored trip to the...

Fionna publishes a nice paper!

Fionna has just had her first paper published from her postdoc with Fred Allain at the ETH in Zurich – in NSMB, no less! While simultaneously juggling a small child (not literally) she has published her structure of the zinc knuckle domains of Lin28 (an...

Socks gets the official word on her PhD

…and the word is “congratulations!” – yes – that’s right – the official letter from the Dean has arrived saying that Socks has qualified for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Well done Socks – we will put...