MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Sarah is now officially Dr Sarah.

Sarah is now officially Dr Sarah.

The final hurdle has been leapt! Sarah graduated with no mishaps (other than getting her shoe heel caught in a grating and nearly having to go up on stage in bare feet…) and can return to her postdoctoral position at the Crick Institute in London wearing her PhD...
Ana’s lab baby update…

Ana’s lab baby update…

Congratulations to Ana and Callum. Ana obviously felt left out of the baby congratulations wave and so decided to have her baby a week early! Emma Silva Smits was born yesterday morning at 10.18 am and was 48 cm tall, weighing 3.06 kg (although no confidence intervals...

GATA1-DNA structure published

The long-awaited structure of the double ZF of GATA1 bound to DNA – a pseudopalindromic site – has come out [Pubmed or PDF via journal] in Protein Science, thanks to the work of Lorna (including some *very* funky multi-coloured gel shifts), Krystal and...