Joel Mackay The 44th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2019

Joel Mackay

Joel Mackay trained as a chemist at the University of Auckland and a chemical biologist at The University of Cambridge before coming to Australia to postdoc with Glenn King at the University of Sydney. Over the course of the subsequent 25 years, he has succeeded in moving a total of about 20 metres up the corridor to where he runs a laboratory that is focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying mammalian gene regulation. His main expertise is structural biology and the analysis of protein interactions, but that hasn’t stopped the lab branching out into more areas than it probably should have. The work of his group has been recognized by several national scientific awards, including the Gottschalk medal from the Australian Academy of Science, the Roche medal and Labgear award from the ASBMB and the Prime Minister’s Life Scientist of the Year award. In his spare time, he indulges in running trail ultras, bike touring, and playing jazz saxophone (not at the same time).