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Ana strikes out in a brave new direction!
After quite a few years of being an invaluable member of the lab - and one of the only people I know who have solved structures by NMR and crystallography - and done EM as well - Ana has decided to step out of academia into the scary real world. She has done it by tooling up as a web application developer in her spare time - and she instantly became a hit - securing a job with the web development company Hypothesis. So far, she is really getting a buzz out of it - very exciting - and remarkably painless! It seems that those skills developed as a science PhD turn out to be valuable in other places - who would have thought!
Ingrid and Percy get (secretly) hitched
Ingrid Macindoe - postdoc in the Mackay lab - has recently tied the knot with her beau in a low-key ceremony - and with the most awesome cake! Congratulations Ingrid!
Funding opportunities for ECRs
Here is an amazing resource put together by some folks at Johns Hopkins, showing funding opportunities (and travel grant opportunities) for PhD students, postdocs and ECRs: Early career faculty funding opportunities Postdoc funding opportunities PhD funding opportunities And here is a short article about it in Nature: Nature article on ECR funding database...
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!
Jacqui moves into the heady heights of professordom
Hooray yet again! Jacqui was successful with her promotion application and now is known as *Professor* Jacqui Matthews! She is thinking of wearing her gown and bonnet all the time now, not just for graduations. Going to be hot in the summer!
Double Doctor time!
Check out the photos of Dr Robyn and Dr Mugdha graduating with their PhDs. Don't they look all grown up and knowledgeable! Mugdha will be heading south to postdoc with Jamie Rossjohn at Monash and Robyn is going to go just a little way northwest to postdoc with Rob...
2010 NHMRC grant success
Hooray again! More grants, this time from the NHMRC. One to Jacqui, Joel and Mitchell Guss to work on LMO2 complexes, and one to Joel to try to figure out how the NuRD complex works. We will be able to continue doing *real* experiments next year instead of having...
Perils of trail running in Oz
Out for a run in Garigal National Park yesterday and I nearly stood on this guy. Lucky he was in a torpid...
Photo update
I just found a few photos that Katschi had taken at the McMaster's Beach lab retreat early in the year - so have stuck them up for posterity...
ARC grant success for Jacqui and Liza
Hooray - Jacqui and Liza secured a three-year ARC Discovery Grant with the title: "Inhibiting protein-protein interactions involved in neural development and disease", which will keep several PhD students in the style to which they have become accustomed (not quite...
Now, *this* is a crystal!
During the lab cleanup day today, Paul found this crystal in the bottom of his 5 M NaCl bottle, which had been sitting quietly on his shelf for about a year or so. WOW! That is a falcon tube lid, for reference... Nearly 100 years since the structure of NaCl was...
If you are looking for a good read…
...then look no further than the latest blockbuster from Mackay and Segal. Packed with juicy material on the bipartite selection of zinc fingers by phage display, the lowdown on inhibition of viral transcription by zinc finger proteins and the shocking tale of...
Robyn achieves closure
Robyn has now handed in the final corrected copies of her PhD thesis, and no doubt has now achieved that sense of inner calm that comes with closure of something so substantial... Just needs to tick off that graduation now before she can put "Dr" on her credit...
Long awaited photos of Joel’s European bike trip!
Phew! After two months, I have finally sifted through 2000 photos of my recent cycle touring jaunt through Europe and come up with a subset to keep! Having kept a travel diary while away was an inspired way of making it easier to sort through the photos and...
Joel successful at NSW Paddy Pallin Rogaine.
In the absence of any other interesting news at the moment, it can be reported that in a prime example of collaboration across the university, Joel and Andrew Black from the Research Office (together with non-USyd person Glenn Horrocks) got up to win the 6-hour...
Paul allowed to stay in country now!
Congratulations to Paul, who has just been granted Australian permanent residency, which among other benefits means that we won't have to keep hiding him in the solvent cabinet when the immigration people come to inspect the School.