MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Joel wins Sydney Trailwalker

Perhaps even more improbably, Joel recently got together with three blokes from his running club (Jaap Bakker, Richard Green and Jonathan Worswick) and took out the Oxfam Sydney Trailwalker, a 100-km ultramarathon through the bushland of Sydney. The run attracted over...

Joel wins Australian Rogaining Championships

Improbably, Joel and his rogaining partner Phil Whitten sneaked in by only 20 points (out of 2690) to win the 24-h Australian Rogaining Championships held last weekend in the Eastern MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs. For those of you who have never heard of the...

Lab success at East Coast Protein Meeting

At the East Coast Protein Meeting, which was held last weekend at Coffs Harbour, the lab took home more than their fair share of the prizes! Mugdha Bhati won the prize for the best student talk, and Chu Kong Liew was runner-up for the best presentation by a...

Sally II – The Return of Sally

Sally Eaton, fresh from her PhD in Merlin Crossley’s lab upstairs, has joined Jacqui’s lab for a period of postdoctoral work. Sally will now have worked with Joel/Dave (BSc Hons), Merlin *and* Jacqui – placing her well to decide who is the best...

Our latest Scandanavian arrives!

Mats Gustaffson is an undergraduate from Uppsala University in Sweden who has joined the lab (as of today) as part of the research training component of his undergraduate degree. He will work with Ann on developing the use of ribosome display and phage display for...