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Update from Antonia
Antonia Zech - who worked with Ana for 5 months in 2013-4 as part of her Masters degree in Hamburg - has sent us an update on her activities. She has been doing a PhD at the Institute of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf - in the group of Lucie Carrier. She is working on understanding the process of autophagy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, using techniques like confocal microscopy, gene therapy and working with iPS-cells. More importantly though, she has also been busy creating a family. Emil Isaac was born (a little while ago - on November 2018), and is apparently causing havoc at home now (in the nicest possible way!) as he...
Showing off the coast to collaborators
We had a visit this week from David Doak - video game designer and architect of our new virtual reality app focused on allowing students to investigate the properties of polypeptides. Jane Allison - molecular dynamics aficionado from Auckland Uni who is involved in the project - popped over the ditch to join in our discussions too. So, I took the opportunity to take Jane and David on a walk from Malabar around to Coogee on the weekend - superb weather and a fantastic series of rock platforms. It's a great walk to take visitors on... And here are some of David's photos...
New lab paper hits the streets
Well, this paper took quite some time to come to fruition. Biswa from Melbourne worked hard to extract a structure from some less than friendly NMR data on a protein that was gifted to us by Wayne Patrick (formerly in Otago, now in Victoria University Wellington). I'm not sure it's a gift I'd wish on anyone else, but the job is done! Well done Biswa and everyone else who lent a hand over the years...
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!
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...
Janet wins Young Brilliance prize
Janet Deane was awarded the Young Brilliance prize from the Cure Cancer Australia Foundation last night. This prize is awarded annually to an Australian PhD student who has made an outstanding contribution to understanding and curing cancer. The award was presented...
Dave wins Applied Biosystems Edman Award
Dave Gell won the Edman Award from the ASBMB - a prize given to postdoctoral researchers with less than seven years experience after completing their PhD. Dave will present his work at ComBio 2004 (in Perth) and receive a big dollop of cash as well!
Ann and Janet win ASBMB travelling fellowships
Ann Kwan and Janet Deane were awarded Travelling Fellowships from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. These highly competitive awards provide funding for the recipients to attend an international conference in their field.