MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Two more visiting academics in the lab

A/Profs Kylie Walters and Hiroshi Matsuo are visiting the lab for 2 months from the University of Minnesota. Kylie and Hiroshi are protein NMR spectroscopists with interests in areas including protein-nucleic acid interactions and ubiquitin structure and...

Dave heads for greener pastures (literally)

In a mixture of good news and bad news, all rolled into one, Dave Gell is making a move down south and moving his laboratory to the University of Tasmania in Hobart. It is bad news for us, because Dave has been an absolute cornerstone of the lab, from the time he...
Degrees of separation in science

Degrees of separation in science

A couple of days ago, Jacqui and I attended a dinner for the announcement of the Prime Minister’s Science Prizes in Canberra. We were surprised to bump into the mother of one of Jacqui’s former PhD students (Janet Deane). As it turned out, her father was...

Visiting academic in the lab

A/Prof. Siavoush Dastmalchi is visiting the lab for 6 months from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Siavoush did his PhD at the University of Sydney with Bret Church (and also did some NMR work with us during that period). He has come to brush up on his...