MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Taiwan Oct 2008

Taiwan Oct 2008

For the second October in a row, I was speaking at a conference in Taiwan – highly improbable. This time it was the FAOBMB (Asian and Oceanic Biochemical Societies) meeting, held in Taipei. The hospitality of my hosts was absolutely staggering – they...
ANZMAG Conference, Dec. 2008

ANZMAG Conference, Dec. 2008

Joel, Ann, Robyn and Dave headed off to the Couran Cove resort on South Stradbroke Island (off the coast of Queensland just south of Brisbane) for the biennial conference of the Australian and NZ Society for Magnetic Resonance in the first week or so of December....
Royal National Park Oct 2008

Royal National Park Oct 2008

It had been quite some time since we had had a decent lab bush walk, so we planned an overnight walk in the Blue Mountains for one weekend in October. However, the weather looked slightly dubious in the days preceding, so we took the namby pamby option and decided to...
Chu Kong’s wedding, May ’08

Chu Kong’s wedding, May ’08

It’s not every day that one of the lab members gets married (although it is starting to seem like it). Chu Kong, veteran Mackay lab member, married his long time sweetheart Annabelle Rodriguez, at the Catholic church in Hunter’s Hill and the lab was...