MACKAY & MATTHEWS LAB

Protein structure, function and engineering

Lorne Proteins 2018

Lorne Proteins 2018

Our structural biology contingent headed down to Lorne for this year’s proteins meeting at the new Cumberland venue! Not only did the meeting have the stunning views and great talks that Lorne is known for, but Pathtech was giving out inflatable monkeys...
SOLES Ball 2017

SOLES Ball 2017

This was the first year of the SOLES ball (formerly known as the Amoeba ball). Inspired by its location (the rather ritzy Australian Museum), the theme was “Night at the Museum” and everyone got the “dress like an ancient Egyptian” memo. Here...
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...