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Marylène est maintenant une mère
Congratulations to former postdoc Marylene Vandevenne and her husband Mathieu, who have become the proud parents of baby Alice on 27 March. I've been informed that she (Alice that is) is sleeping soundly from 10 pm till 7 am - which sounds like a great start to me!
Xavier and Betsy’s graduation
Xavier and Betsy, who did Honours with Joel and Ann, respectively, graduated in May in full pomp and ceremony - and Jason got his chance to stand in for Joel on the stage - with the special floppy hat...
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!
Wanted: postdoc biochemist/structural biologist to work with Richard Payne, Sydney/US startup INSAMO (and me). Goal: use cyclic peptide mRNA display to design cell-permeable peptide-based protein degraders: https://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Darlington-Campus/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in--Peptide-Based-Drug-Discovery_0131612-1
Email for more info: joel.mackay@sydney.edu.au
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?
This is supercool, but it does like folding everything, even things that are probably disordered... As always, use with caution, and consult your friendly structural biologist before investing too much in low confidence predictions.
Big Chu picks up a CJ Martin Fellowship
Chu Kong Liew was recently awarded a four-year CJ Martin Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NHMRC. He has used this fellowship to embark on an overseas adventure to that centre of culture (and basketball) UCLA, where he is working in the lab of Rob Clubb. He is...
Jacqui wins Viertel Fellowship
Jacqui has won the Clive and Sylvia Viertel Medical Research Fellowship for 2003. Only one of these prestigious five-year fellowships was awarded this year Australia-wide. As well as a salary, this fellowship provides additional money for a research assistant and...
New ARC Discovery Grant for lab
Joel was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant (Biophysical characterization of protein interactions within a transcription factor network) for 2004-2006.
Daniel wins poster prize at ComBio 2003
Daniel Ryan won a prize for his poster on the TAL1:LMO2:ldb1 interaction at ComBio 2003 in Melbourne last week.
Joel awarded LIEF grant for NMR cryosystem
Joel, together with Gottfried Otting (ANU), Philip Kuchel and others, has obtained funding (AUD750K) to install a cryosystem on the MMB's 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. The system will come with two probeheads - a TXI (HCN) probe (for protein and other 1H work) and a CH...
Janet wins poster prize
At the recent Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) in Broome, Western Australia, the PDB announced the initiation of the PDB Poster Prize for best student poster presentation in macromolecular crystallography. The prize was awarded to Janet Deane for her work...
Daniel wins poster prize
At the recent East Coast Protein Meeting, held at Coffs Harbour, Daniel Ryan won a prize for the best student poster, for his presentation entitled "Using LMO2:ldb1 fusion protein sto probe multi-protein transcriptional complexes". For his efforts, he was awarded...
A snippet in the news
Joel was profiled (briefly!) in The Sydney Morning Herald's new Health and Science section this week. I know we don't use radioactive waves, but it is the...
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...