by Joel Mackay | Nov 28, 2022 | BLOG |
Dr Jessica Zhong has recruited two other ECR colleagues – Dr Karishma Patel and Dr Charlotte Franck – to win a $50,000 reserach grant to support work aimed at developing peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) as possible solutions to the antibiotic resistance...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 26, 2022 | BLOG |
Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant surge in interest in Varroa mites in the last month or so, with the outbreak in NSW. This has resulted in quite a lot of publicity for our work on selective pesticides to tackle the mite, with the latest being an article on...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 15, 2022 | BLOG |
Japan’s Science and Technology Agency has picked up the recent publicity around our Varroa-mite-specific pesticide project by featuring it briefly on their website. Tash will be able to read it to you!
by Joel Mackay | Jul 5, 2022 | BLOG |
…is the title of our new review that is going to appear in Trends in Biochem Sci very soon. A sneak preview is here. In the paper – shaped by Xavier and Jason – we ponder on the observation that multiple paralogues are observed for all members of our...
by Joel Mackay | Jun 28, 2022 | BLOG |
Our work to design safer insecticides – particularly ones targeting honeybee pests (which was funded recently by Horticultural Innovations Australia) – has become more immediately topical overnight with a report (and followups 1 2) that the dreaded Varroa...
by Joel Mackay | Jun 20, 2022 | BLOG |
Joel and Alyson participated in the 2022 Paddy Pallin 6-hour rogaine yesterday – organized by the NSW Rogaining Association. Weather was perfect and had a fantastic outing – Alyson’s first ever rogaine, but she smashed it – a complete natural....