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Jason wins drug discovery seed grant
Jason has been successful in winning a $15,000 grant from the ECR seed funding program of the USyd Drug Discovery Initiative. This grant will help him pursue his mRNA-display based hunt for inhibitors of oncogenic transcription factors. Super stuff Jason!
Did I already mention that there are a lot of lab babies appearing lately?
Announcing the arrival into the world of Oren Lucev O’Connell, born on last Saturday morning at 3:49 am (GMT -4) and weighing in at 8lb 2oz. Direct report from new dad Mitch: "Mum (Annabelle) and baby are doing wonderfully, and we’re having fun adjusting to our new life at home. Not at all what I expected when I jumped on that plane to UC Davis all those years ago to collaborate with the Segal lab." Everyone seems to have been busy during the pandemic! Mitch has been running a lab at the University of Rochester in New York for the last couple of...
*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!
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!
Ivan hands in!!
In a momentous occasion - for both Jacqui and Ivan - Ivan has handed in his PhD thesis. It was a mission, but it is a mission that has been completed!
Roland lands a job!
Roland - postdoc in the lab from 2006 till 2011 - has landed himself a Level B academic position in the School of Science and Health at Western Sydney University. He and Liza will make a great wife-and-husband team as they continue to build their lab together out...
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...