MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Joel awarded LIEF grant for NMR cryosystem

Joel, together with Gottfried Otting (ANU), Philip Kuchel and others, has obtained funding (AUD750K) to install a cryosystem on the MMB’s 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. The system will come with two probeheads – a TXI (HCN) probe (for protein and other 1H work)...
Janet wins poster prize

Janet wins poster prize

At the recent Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) in Broome, Western Australia, the PDB announced the initiation of the PDB Poster Prize for best student poster presentation in macromolecular crystallography. The prize was awarded to Janet Deane for her work...

Daniel wins poster prize

At the recent East Coast Protein Meeting, held at Coffs Harbour, Daniel Ryan won a prize for the best student poster, for his presentation entitled “Using LMO2:ldb1 fusion protein sto probe multi-protein transcriptional complexes”. For his efforts, he was...

A snippet in the news

Joel was profiled (briefly!) in The Sydney Morning Herald’s new Health and Science section this week. I know we don’t use radioactive waves, but it is the press…

Poster Prizes at Lorne

Philippa Stokes and Belinda Westman took out two of the poster prizes at the recent Lorne Conference for Protein Structure and Function. At the same meeting, Joel gave a talk on Ann Kwan and Belinda Sharpe’s protein design work, and Jacqui chaired a session....