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Michael Webster wins EMBO Fellowship
Michael, who has just recently finished his PhD at the LMB in Cambridge with Lori Passmore, has been successful in winning an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to fund his work in Albert Weixlbaumer's lab in Strasbourg. Here, he will investigate how translation is linked to transcription in bacteria, by assembling complexes of ribosomes and RNA polymerases and characterizing their structure by cryo-EM and their activity with biochemical assays. A fantastic opportunity - and a great place for us to visit if we happen to be in that part of the world - well done Michael!
Mehdi gets the big tick!
Congratulations to Mehdi, who has just received the official letter saying he has fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD! Hooray! Now, just the graduation ceremony to come!
Have been off X for months but had to log in to see response to AF3. I am much less smart than the authors - but am I (and Erin) the only ones to think that the helical afros that it makes out of IDRs is totally weird? Am I missing something?
Amazing story from the lab down the corridor - @RezwanSidd working with Sandro Ataide and Ruth Hall in @SydneySOLES at @Sydney_Science - now they will be thrown into the gladiators' pit I suspect with the other protagonists that prowl this landscape! 🙂 Great piece of work!
Margie wins RD Wright Fellowship
Dr Margie Sunde has just been awarded a thoroughly deserved RD Wright fellowship from the NHMRC. This five-year fellowship is very prestigious and will give Margie a great chance to consolidate her research with independent funding.
NHMRC Project Grant success
Joel and Dave, in collaboration with David Adams at the Sanger Institute in the UK, have been awarded an NHMRC Project Grant to study the structure and function of a zinc finger protein with a putative role in the regulation of alternative splicing. This project...
Joel and Jacqui win NHMRC Program Grant
Together with Merlin Crossley, Joel and Jacqui were recently awarded $2.8M in a five-year NHMRC Program Grant, to persue their work on understanding the molecular basis of gene regulation. Only a handful of these grants, which emphasize collaborations between...
Fionna and Ann win prizes at East Coast Protein Meeting
Fionna Loughlin and Ann Kwan both won prizes at the recent East Coast Protein Meeting. Held at the Opal Cove resort in Coffs Harbour, ECPM was a superbly run and very interesting meeting chaired by Philippa Stokes (a third year PhD student in the lab) and put...
Daniel and Belinda form collaboration
Recent Mackay lab alumnus Belinda Westman has entered what looks to be a very long term collaboration with current Matthews Lab member Daniel Ryan. Date of formalization of this collaboration to be announced... - update - looks like Jan 7 2006...
Daniel wins ASBMB Fellowship
Daniel Ryan has scored one of the 2005 ASBMB Fellowships, designed to allow PhD students to travel to an international conference of their choosing. Competition for these awards is fierce every year, so it is a great achievement for him to have won one of these. He...
Sharon incubates new prospective lab member!
Sharon has announced the impending arrival of a new prospective Hons student, although it might take a few years before they are able to hold a Gilson properly. We are all hoping that things go well for Sharon, and that she is able to find something stylish in the...
Philippa et al organize the East Coast Protein meeting
On 24-26 June this year, the SPG and QPG will be co-hosting the East Coast Protein meeting at the luxurious Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour. This year, the meeting will be organized almost entirely by Philippa Stokes, Sharon Pursglove, Molly Clifton, Ann Kwan and...
Mike wins poster prize at Lorne Protein Conference
Mike Swanton capped off his PhD in the lab by winning one of the poster prizes at the 2005 Lorne Protein Conference for a presentation on the work he has been carrying out over the last couple of years on zinc-finger:DNA interactions. This work has been going well...
Structure of the GATA-FOG complex published in PNAS
After about 7 years of painstaking work (!), we have finally been able to solve and publish the structure of the complex formed between the N-terminal zinc finger of GATA-1 and a classical finger from FOG. This work was made very difficult by the weak nature of the...
New research fellow to come to the lab
Dr Roland Gamsjaeger from the University of Linz was awarded an Austrian Shroedinger Fellowship to come to the lab for two years - Roland will arrive in a couple of months and brings expertise in Biacore and AFM with him.
Janet’s structure of the LMO2:ldb1 complex published in EMBO J.
The structure of the complex formed between full-length LMO4 and the LMO4-binding region of ldb1 was published recently in EMBO J. This structure revealed a very unusual binding mode - a tandem beta-zipper, in which the ldb1 forms additional beta-strands to add on...