by Joel Mackay | Aug 3, 2009 | BLOG |
Sock Yue Thong won the prize for the best poster and Soumya Joseph won third prize for her poster at the East Coast Protein Meeting, held in Coffs Harbour over the weekend. The ECPM is a joint initiative of the Sydney Protein Group and the Queensland Protein Group and...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 7, 2009 | BLOG |
Mitch O’Connell has followed in Eija’s Finnish footsteps. After winning a University Medal for his undergraduate degree in 2008, Mitch has been successful in winning a Cancer Institute NSW Research Scholar Award, which will help fund his research project...
by Joel Mackay | Jun 22, 2009 | BLOG |
Fionna Loughlin, who finished her PhD with Joel in 2007, has just been awarded an ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on the structural biology of protein-RNA complexes in the laboratory of Fred Allain in Zürich. Well done Fionna – thoroughly deserved!
by Joel Mackay | Jun 20, 2009 | BLOG |
Joel teamed up with Richard Green, Jaap Bakker and Jonathan Worswick to win the inaugural Oxfam Trailtrekker 100-km race in the Yorkshire Dales recently. The four of them completed the course (running together), which took in parts of the Pennine Way and the Dales...
by Joel Mackay | May 20, 2009 | BLOG |
Richard – ex-postdoctoral associate with Joel – is now working for the Faculty of 1000 in London, trying to make the scientific literature more easily accessible, and was recently interviewed about his predilection for blogging in The Australian newspaper...