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Lorna weaves (well, knits) her magic!
Lorna has been busy preparing for the Sydney Royal Easter Show - and has come up with the goods. Her knitted fingerless mittens have snared first prize at the Show in the Adult Knitted Accessories division. Storming work Lorna. I'm expecting a lab coat next...
Joel hits the trails in the UTA 50-km race
A friend of Joel's had to pull out of the Ultra Trail Australia 50-km race in the Blue Mountains recently and offered Joel his entry at short notice. Given that he wasn't in 'race shape' - whatever that means - he went for the social option and ran the event juggling. Much less pressure to run a good time (and much more cheering from the crowd!). Weather held out and it was a great day out on the trails - he managed to get around in 7h 40 or so (25% of the way down the finishing list) - definitely happy with that. Strava post here.
Ahhh – it’s still one of my favourite sights in science…
...a sweet 15N-HSQC titration. Last minute effort to add that extra piece of preliminary data to the grant application - and who would have believed that it would actually pan out - but it did! All thanks to Ingrid's protein production skills and Alex Norman's (postdoc in collaborator Rich Payne's lab) peptide synthesis expertise. I just got to do the only bit that I know how to do - the HSQC titration. Let's hope the assessors enjoy looking at it as much as I do!
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!
Mitchell shows his eye for a photo…
Fantastic photo of the moon setting over Sydney in the...
Almost a lab baby…
Nick Shepherd, who recently relocated from Sydney to Melbourne, has just become the proud father of Leo Saska Shepherd. Mother Ivana and baby Leo are doing just fine and Nick is learning some new skills to go with the ones he has in the lab...Congratulations...
Mitch honoured by ASBMB
Mitch O'Connell, who handed in his PhD in 2013 and then headed off to Berkeley to work with Jennifer Doudna, has won the Boomerang Award from ASBMB, which is presented to a young expat Aussie to allow them to come back to attend ComBio and to give a talk in one of...
Wilfred is off to the Big Apple
Wilfred Leung, who did Hons with Joel in 2007 and has since then sampled both Vet School and medical research, has won a PhD place at Cornell in New York (not quite the Big Apple, but a stone's throw from it), starting this August. Hard to get these places, so it...
Jason and Mel are starting their own group
In July, Jason and Mel will become proud first-time parents, with all the joy and sleeplessness that that entails! Make sure you congratulate or comiserate with them...
Neil’s Lorne’s success
Neil nabbed one of the poster prizes at this year's Lorne Protein Conference. Might have even been just about the only NSW poster prize from the 20 they announced! Well done Neil! Your shout, I reckon.
Joel ‘appears’ on the radio…
...talking to ABC702 (which I know you all listen to) to explain the sport of rogaining. Of course, it was at 6:10 am on a Saturday morning, so not many of you might have heard it. Because I know you'll be gutted to have missed it, you can listen to it here (~13...
Jason wins talk prize
Jason gave a talk on his NuRD complex work at the recent "Proteomics and beyond" symposium hosted by APAF at Macquarie University and, in his first conference oral presentation, impressed the judges enough to be awarded the prize for best talk. Sterling effort...
New lab baby!
Thilo and Vanessa, living in Basel, have just become the proud parents of baby Quinn (hopefully not named after the slightly dodgy detective in Dexter). Congratulations to both of them! I'm trying to think how many that is now. If we don't count Kate and Richard...
Mitchell hits the big time in Berkeley
Mitchell O'Connell, who completed his PhD with Joel in 2013 has had a taste of success in the US with a first-author paper in Nature on work that he spearheaded in his postdoctoral position with Prof Jennifer Doudna in the Dept of Molecular and Cell Biology at...
Jacqui invited to speak at the triennial GATA meeting in 2015
In the latest of a recent glut of international speaking invitations (Gordon Conference in the US and the Prague Spring Meeting being the most recent), Jacqui has been invited to speak at the GATA meeting, which will be held next year on the island of Kos in...
Marylène’s paper on designer RNA-binding proteins has been accepted in Angew. Chem.
Slightly too late to allow us to celebrate with her, but a good belated going-away present nonetheless. Steph and Mitch also put in plenty of work and several other people in the lab were involved too... The full citation is: Engineering Specificity Changes on a...