MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Joel has a good run

Last weekend, I raced in the Great North Walk 100-mile trail run just north of Sydney, and was lucky enough to come in third, behind David Waugh and Tim Cochrane. It was an awesome run with great scenery, and everything went as well as it could possibly have done on...

Eija wins Cancer Institute NSW Award

Not only have Joel, Jacqui, Ann and Margie been busy getting grants, but Eija Lehtomaki didn’t want to miss out either. She has been awarded a Cancer Institute NSW Research Scholar Award, which will help fund her research project and provide funding for...

More grants! Yay!

At the same time we found out about the grant towards our new NMR spectrometer, Jacqui was awarded an NHMRC Project Grant to continue some of her work on LIM domain complexes, and Margie and Ann were awarded an ARC Discovery Grant to investigate aspects of hydrophobin...

More megahertz, anyone?!

We met with some success in the latest round of ARC Equipment and Infrastructure grants and have been awarded $1.3M towards the cost of an 800 MHz NMR spectrometer to keep our cryo-equipped 600 company. We also have some commitments from other universities, which...

Translation services on offer!

Out of curiosity, Paul started writing the languages that people in the lab could speak reasonably fluently on the whiteboard the other day. The list kept getting longer and longer – and ended up with 20! They are: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese,...