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Xavier gets to put the gown on
Xavier Reid graduated today with his BSc with first class Honours - and you can see him here accompanied by his co-supervisor, Dr Jason Low. No one will mention that Jason isn't wearing his UNSW gown... Xavier has taken the plunge to come back and start a PhD - splitting his time between digging deep into NuRD complex biochemistry and designing new high-affinity, high-specificity regulators of gene expression, using the new RaPID screening technology that has landed at USyd with the arrival of Dr Toby Passioura.
Taylor’s PhD has been formally approved!
...so feel free to congratulate her if you see her around. I'm sure there will be a celebration to follow! Well done Taylor - it's a mighty achievement.
Mehdi and Jason’s paper accepted at FEBS J
In exciting news, we have had our paper "The stoichiometry and interactome of the Nucleosome Remodelling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex are conserved across multiple cell lines" accepted in FEBS J [epub here]. It's particularly exciting both because it's Mehdi's first first-author paper from his PhD and it is also Jason's first last- and corresponding-author paper. Congratulate them if you see them... The stoichiometry and interactome of the Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase (NuRD) complex is conserved across multiple cell...
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!
Poster Prizes at Lorne
Philippa Stokes and Belinda Westman took out two of the poster prizes at the recent Lorne Conference for Protein Structure and Function. At the same meeting, Joel gave a talk on Ann Kwan and Belinda Sharpe's protein design work, and Jacqui chaired a session....
Cover Story
Our most recent paper, a collaboration with Peter Karuso, on the solution properties of DNA-binding ruthenium complexes, made the cover of Dalton Transactions, a Royal Society of Chemistry...
Positions available in Mackay and Matthews Lab.
Postdoctoral and Research Assistant positions are currently available in the Mackay and Matthews labs. Download PDF advertisement for postdoc. Contact Joel or Jacqui for more...
Joel part of largest LIEF grant for 800
A consortium headed by Gottfried Otting and Joel was recently awarded $1.53M from the ARC's large equipment grant fund (LIEF). This grant, which was the largest of its kind, will allow the purchase of an 800 MHz NMR spectrometer equipped with a cryosystem. The...
NIH funding for lab
A team comprising Merlin Crossley (USyd), Andrew Perkins (Monash) and Joel was awarded an NIH R01 grant (~AUD1.2M) to study the repression of fetal gamma globin.
Lab team wins NSW Rogaining Championships!
A crack team, made up of Janet Deane, Ann Kwan, Chu Wai Liew and Wendy Yung, took out the 15 in 24 hour event at the recent NSW Rogaining Championships, held in Nowendoc north of Newcastle. Joel and Jacqui also competed (in the 24 h event) and were placed third. A...
Jacqui and Joel win NHMRC Project Grants
Both Jacqui and Joel won NHMRC Project Grants for 2003-2005. Joel's grant ($225,000) is to understand the way in which specific transcription factors synergise in controlling blood cell development, while Jacqui's grant ($420,000) is to work on the structure and...
Wendy Yung wins poster prize
One of the PhD students in Joel's lab, Wendy Yung, won the major poster prize at the recent ComBio2002 conference, held in Sydney. The prize, sponsored by the Biochemical Journal, included a subscription to the journal as well as a hefty...
Mackay and Matthews labs win ARC Discovery Grants
Both Jacqui and Joel were awarded ARC Discovery Grants for 2003-2005. Jacqui's grant ($300,000) will allow her to continue her work aimed at understanding the role of specific transcription factors in the control of gene expression, and to begin to design specific...
Joel wins Minister’s Prize for the Life Sciences
In a dinner held at Parliament House in Canberra several weeks ago, Joel was presented with the Science Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year. The award came with a $35,000 cheque and a medal. The award was given for the contribution made by Joel and his...