MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Taylor Goes to New Zealand!

Taylor Goes to New Zealand!

Over the holiday shutdown period, Taylor jumped over the Tasman for her first New Zealand visit (in the 11th hour of her PhD of course). It was an 8 day solo adventure with a jam packed schedule. One night in Auckland, 2 days in Rotorua, a 9 hour train across the...
Walking with Art, 2017

Walking with Art, 2017

Colleague and running partner Art Palmer made the trip over to Australia in December to be a plenary speaker at the ANZMAG conference up in northern NSW (Kingscliff) and he made the time to let me take him for a bit of hiking after the meeting. Well, also during the...
Hyams Beach, 2017

Hyams Beach, 2017

The annual lab pilgrimage. Mehdi did plenty of camerawork this time – as did Athina ‘Selfie’ Manakas. Mehdi – I hate to break it to Diba, but we saw loads of kangeroos just after you left…see last photos. Admittedly we had to go down to...
Graduation, May 2017

Graduation, May 2017

We had multiple graduands today – Dorothy with her PhD (biggest hooray!), Matt, Gabrielle and Anthony with their Hons (big hooray!) and even some sneaky Pharmacology folks muscling in on the...
Blue Mountains, May 2016

Blue Mountains, May 2016

Monica Gerth was visiting from Dunedin to give the School seminar and so we took the opportunity to head up for a day walk in the lower Blue Mountains. Joel had been scouting out trails in the area and had done a bit of a reconnaissance a couple of months ago using...