by Joel Mackay | May 27, 2026 | BLOG |
(Relatively) new lab member Dr Jordan Pederick – fresh from a PhD with John Bruning at U Adelaide – threw his hat in the ring at this year’s Sydney Protein Group Postdoc Prize event. In a field of five speakers giving talks on diverse topics, Jordan...
by Joel Mackay | Jan 7, 2026 | BLOG |
Our latest paper has just been released in Nucleic Acids Research: https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/nar/gkaf1406/8406434 This paper has been masterminded by Lucien and Xavier – and presents some surprising findings on the ability of BRD4...
by Joel Mackay | Jan 4, 2026 | BLOG |
Shahnaz has decided that doing a PhD isn’t sufficiently challenging so she has upped the ante with the recent arrival of her (and her husband’s!) beautiful new baby Mehnaz! There is a strong consensus that her cheeks are very pinchable – so she may...
by Joel Mackay | Dec 1, 2025 | BLOG |
OK – maybe that’s hyping it up a bit, but these cyclic peptides are pretty amazing, we think! This is the latest chapter in Karishma’s PhD work (with a massive effort by Biswa Mohanty too!): Peptide molecular glues select between BET paralogues by...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 23, 2025 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Last week, Simone graduated with first class Honours – on a lunchbreak from the PhD that she has started in the lab following that Honours year! Jasmine from Sandro and Ann’s lab graduated alongside her – on a perfect day for standing on the...
by Joel Mackay | Oct 22, 2025 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Was fantastic to see Karishma last week when she passed through Sydney on a break from her posdoctoral work at Oxford. Was a good chance to try to get her last couple of papers from the lab sorted out before (in other exciting news) she takes up a very prestigious...