MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

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… 🙂
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.