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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 -...
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...
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!
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...
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...