MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Kaiya Hunter

Kaiya Hunter

2025. Second year BSc student who embarked on a Dalyell (advanced) undergraduate project in Joel’s lab (Semester 2 2025) under the guidance of Erekle. She examined the biochemical properties of the BET bromodomain protein BRD3, collecting some nice data that...
Markus Williams

Markus Williams

2025. BSc Hons student who worked with Joel – bringing some molecular dynamics into the lab toolkit. Drove it himself mostly, because of Joel’s woeful lack of knowledge about AI and the nuts and bolts of setting up MD.
Tom Shaw

Tom Shaw

202. 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. Andrea took him under her wing to guide him through some protein production and even some structural biology –...
Angela Cen

Angela Cen

2024 BSc Hons student who worked with Joel to peer under the hood of CHD4 and figure out how it works… Never got to see her companion in the lab though, unfortunately.