MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Erekle Kobakhidze

Erekle Kobakhidze

2023 BSc Hons student who worked with Joel (and Lucien and Clement) to try to unravel the mysteries of the (appallingly named) transcriptional regulator PWWP2A and its partners. Has stayed on as an RA prior to commencing the next stage of his research journey.
Andrea Daners

Andrea Daners

PhD student working with Joel (following Hons in 2023) – focused on uncovering the mysteries of how CHD4 activity is regulated and well on her way to becoming the lab’s first genuine cryoEM practitioner.
Lucien Lambrechts

Lucien Lambrechts

PhD student working with Joel (following Hons in 2022), who impressively walked the line between chemistry and biochemistry to get native chemical ligation up and running in the lab – part of our gateway to designer nucleosomes for unravelling some of the...
Clement Luong

Clement Luong

BSc Hons student with Joel in 2022 who wasn’t deterred by the 200+ kDa of the CHD4 chromatin remodelling enzyme and has stayed on as a research assistant to look further under the hood at CHD4 activity. After dabbling in amber stop codon suppression technology,...