Mackay/Matthews Lab Award Winners 2009

Poster prizes at the ECPM
Sock Yue Thong (right) won the prize for the best poster and Soumya Joseph (left) won third prize for her poster at the East Coast Protein Meeting, held in Coffs Harbour. The ECPM is a joint initiative of the Sydney Protein Group and the Queensland Protein Group and is held every two years. The meeting focuses on giving younger scientists the opportunity to give oral presentations. Sock’s poster outlined her work on the structural analysis of proteins in the NuRD complex. Mitch O'Connell, Robyn Mansfield, Ingrid MacIndoe, Vanessa Morris and Paula Vaz won travel awards to attend the meeting. Congratulations all-round!

Mitch O’Connoll wins Cancer Institute NSW Award!
After winning a University Medal for his undergraduate degree in 2008, Mitch O'Connell has been successful in winning a Cancer Institute NSW Research Scholar Award, which will help fund his PhD research project and provide funding for conference travel and other expenses. Top effort Mitch!

Poster Prizes at Lorne
Mugdha Bhati and Ingrid Macindoe both won poster prizes at the 2009 Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function for their presentations on LIM homeodomain and hydrophobin proteins, respectively. Well done, girls!