MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

AMOEBA Ball, Nov. 2010

AMOEBA Ball, Nov. 2010

This year, the School’s student social committee (AMOEBA) organized their Annual Ball at the Grace Hotel in the CBD. About 80 people turned up for a fine evening of wining, dining, mingling, dancing and discussions of molecular mechanisms underlying epigenetic...
Lake Macquarie rogaine, Aug. 2010

Lake Macquarie rogaine, Aug. 2010

Dave Segal was visiting the lab for three weeks from UC Davis recently, and we decided that the best way for him to get a real taste of the Australian bush was to take him on a rogaine! He bravely signed up for a 12-h event with Joel a couple of hours north of Sydney...
Navshield July 2010

Navshield July 2010

The Navshield is a rogaine-type event organized by the Bushwalkers Wilderness Rescue Service (BWRS) as a training event for all of the different rescue organizations around the place. Teams from various Police, Army, SES headquarters, bushwalking clubs etc take part,...
Blue Mountains July 2010

Blue Mountains July 2010

It had been quite some time since we had had a lab walk – or at least since Joel had been on one. Line – our Danish student who can’t stay away from the lab – decided that a day walk in the Mountains was on the cards. Joel perused the maps and...
Graduation, May, 2010

Graduation, May, 2010

Sarah graduated from her BSc Hons degree in this round, and Roland stood in for Joel in the funny hat, since Joel was away pedalling around Europe (freezing in the Pyrenees when this took place, from memory…). Good to see Sarah is smiling, knowing that she has...