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*Another* lab baby! Where are they all coming from?
Well, this one is coming to us courtesy of Jason and his wife Mel (mostly Mel) - he hasn't been given a name yet, so I think we'll just call him X. Actually, that could be quite a cool name... Here is is pictured with his elder brother Michael - who looks much happier about the whole situation than X! Mother, father, brother and X are all doing well and getting used to the new regime!
Welcome to Adnan Shaik!
Dr Anjumara Shaik, who has been working with our collaborator Alyson Ashe on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, has just become a new mother on 3 June - and here you can see her husband Asif Pasha and her new son Adnan (who doesn't look that pleased about the whole being born business). The whole family are doing well - congratulations!
Joel’s Braidwood-Bermagui bike weekend
With the lack of international bike touring possibilities at the moment, Joel's been looking for options closer to home. Last weekend, he loaded up his gravel bike and headed south to do a loop from Braidwood to Bermagui on the coast, and back a different way (which allowed the luxury of a night in a hotel in the middle). Here's his report: Day 1 - The forbidden road [168 km, 2500 m ascent] I took a punt that I would be able to tiptoe past the two landslides that have closed the Araluen Rd - and it paid off. The ride to the coast was exquisitely car free as a result! Some really nice dirt roads - and you could easily extend the dirt even further west of Narooma. Weather excellent -...
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!
In other SPG news…
...Athina has been awarded the SPG's Greg Ralston Prize, which will cover her costs for attending the Lorne Protein Conference in Feb 2016 - congratulations Athina!
Just call him “Mr Secretary”
In a landslide victory (actually, I have no idea how the voting went) Jason Low has been elected by the people as the new secretary of the Sydney Protein Group - carrying the flag for the lab in its long association with the society [SPG website]. He'll have to get...
Ana’s paper comes out in JBC
Even though Ana is currently focusing mostly on more important matters, she has managed to get her second first-author paper from the lab published. You can check it out here.
Sarah is now officially Dr Sarah.
The final hurdle has been leapt! Sarah graduated with no mishaps (other than getting her shoe heel caught in a grating and nearly having to go up on stage in bare feet...) and can return to her postdoctoral position at the Crick Institute in London wearing her PhD...
Ana’s lab baby update…
Congratulations to Ana and Callum. Ana obviously felt left out of the baby congratulations wave and so decided to have her baby a week early! Emma Silva Smits was born yesterday morning at 10.18 am and was 48 cm tall, weighing 3.06 kg (although no confidence...
Welcome to new lab members – Mehdi, Jason (aka. Alex) and Taylor
We have three people joining Joel's lab in one week this week. First up, we have Mehdi Sharifitabar who hails from Iran and is starting his PhD. Taylor Szyszka (whose surname would surely win you a game of Scrabble if you could only spell it) is also a new PhD...
GATA1-DNA structure published
The long-awaited structure of the double ZF of GATA1 bound to DNA - a pseudopalindromic site - has come out [Pubmed or PDF via journal] in Protein Science, thanks to the work of Lorna (including some *very* funky multi-coloured gel shifts), Krystal and Nina - and...
…still they keep coming!
What can we say - the lab is clearly a fertile place...Born August 2 (very early in the morning) in Hong Kong. Congratulations to Eija and...
Two babies in one day?!
I think I can safely say that this is the first time we have had two 'lab babies' delivered on the same day... Raina Wong (PhD 2005) is now the proud mother of baby...
Even better than a poster prize…
All right - I suppose this is bigger news than the poster prize - Jason is now the proud father of young Jason Low Jr (at least I'm assuming that's his name) - although you can see that he clearly wasn't very interested in the details of the Gibson cloning protocol...
Jason wins a poster prize!
Jason attended the Bosch Institute Annual Scientific and Young Investigator's Meeting last week and walked away with the Genesearch Prize for an outstanding poster presentation. His poster title was 'What's in a NuRD? Strategies to elucidate the structure of...
Ana and Callum tie the knot
Ana headed off to Vanuatu last week with Callum, her betrothed, and made it all official in a ceremony that was fortunately *not* interrupted by a Category 5 hurricane (which is a shame, because then I could have made a crack about a whirlwind romance). Vanuatu was...