MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Margie wins RD Wright Fellowship

Dr Margie Sunde has just been awarded a thoroughly deserved RD Wright fellowship from the NHMRC. This five-year fellowship is very prestigious and will give Margie a great chance to consolidate her research with independent funding.

NHMRC Project Grant success

Joel and Dave, in collaboration with David Adams at the Sanger Institute in the UK, have been awarded an NHMRC Project Grant to study the structure and function of a zinc finger protein with a putative role in the regulation of alternative splicing. This project has...

Joel and Jacqui win NHMRC Program Grant

Together with Merlin Crossley, Joel and Jacqui were recently awarded $2.8M in a five-year NHMRC Program Grant, to persue their work on understanding the molecular basis of gene regulation. Only a handful of these grants, which emphasize collaborations between...

Daniel and Belinda form collaboration

Recent Mackay lab alumnus Belinda Westman has entered what looks to be a very long term collaboration with current Matthews Lab member Daniel Ryan. Date of formalization of this collaboration to be announced… – update – looks like Jan 7...