MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Tom Shaw

Tom Shaw

Second-year Science undergraduate who’s joined Joel’s lab in 2025 for a taste of research. And that will be the taste of zinc fingers, with Andrea taking him under her wing to guide him through some protein production and perhaps structural biology, should...
Ivan Jansen

Ivan Jansen

Undergraduate intern from Techniek College Rotterdam, here for the better part of a year to get a taste of academic research down under. Working with Lihua to explore the newly accessible world of AI-guided protein design! Like any good Dutchman, the first thing...
Sebastian Pratama

Sebastian Pratama

PhD student working with Joel to design inhibitors of transcriptional regulators. Comes from industry with experience in expressing proteins in 8000-L vessels – so tempting to try making one of our proteins on that scale… 🙂