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Efe takes to the great outdoors
Just had some correspondence with Efe Isilak, a bright spark who spent time in the lab a few years ago, who wanted to let us know that much as he loves science, he felt like he couldn't spend his life in an indoor job - so of course he bought a farm! Took him a while to respond to my reply as he was out harvesting olives. I have a strong feeling that this is going go to well - but I made the mistake of forwarding his email to the lab, which invited everyone to come for a lab retreat...
Our Peppy VR paper hits the airwaves!
Our great collaboration with David Doak, Jane Allison, Juliet Gerrard and Gareth Denyer is now out in Protein Science here . Peppy VR is a Unity application written by David (of Goldeneye fame), advised on by Juliet, Jane and myself and tested in real-life teaching classes by Gareth. You can get it free here for Oculus (Rift/Quest): Peppy VR.
Louise and the cloudy sea
Our RaPID collaborator from the Crick Institute in London - Louise Walport - was visiting this week (on her way to a speaking invitation at the Australian Peptide Conference) and she stopped in for a visit and to give a seminar. We managed to find a day with some good weather so that we could see a little of the Blue Mountains - and we were rewarded for our early start by getting a fantastic cloud formation in the valleys - not to mention plenty of signs on the route I chose that said something along the lines of "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"...
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!
Lab success at East Coast Protein Meeting
At the East Coast Protein Meeting, which was held last weekend at Coffs Harbour, the lab took home more than their fair share of the prizes! Mugdha Bhati won the prize for the best student talk, and Chu Kong Liew was runner-up for the best presentation by a...
Sally II – The Return of Sally
Sally Eaton, fresh from her PhD in Merlin Crossley's lab upstairs, has joined Jacqui's lab for a period of postdoctoral work. Sally will now have worked with Joel/Dave (BSc Hons), Merlin *and* Jacqui - placing her well to decide who is the best supervisor (not that...
Our latest Scandanavian arrives!
Mats Gustaffson is an undergraduate from Uppsala University in Sweden who has joined the lab (as of today) as part of the research training component of his undergraduate degree. He will work with Ann on developing the use of ribosome display and phage display for...
Sandra wins poster prize
Sandra Wissmüller recently attended the 6th Discovery Science and Biotechnology Meeting in Brisbane, where she was awarded an Early Career Researcher poster prize for her poster: Specific Interactions of Sox Proteins with many Transcription Factors. The work...
Margie and Ann win Linkage Grant
Margie and Ann were recently awarded an ARC Linkage Grant to investigate the possible biotechnological uses of hydrophobin proteins. The work is a collaboration with the German chemical company BASF.
Jason talks at GATA conference in Capri
At the recent GATA factors conference on the Mediterranean island of Capri, Jason was invited to present his work on the DNA_binding properties of C. elegans GATA zinc fingers. He gave a great account of his work, injecting a little bit of structural biology into...
Joel recognized in the Bulletin’s Smartest 100
The Bulletin, a current affairs magazine, is publishing a list of the people it considers "the 100 smartest, most innovative and most creative people currently working in Australia". We think that there must have been a mixup between this list and the related list...
Molecule of the Month!
One of our most prized structures, the GATA:FOG zinc finger complex, features in the Protein Data Bank's Molecule of the Month section for March 2007. Check it out! A couple of our recent reviews of the field (Sunde and Matthews and Gamsjaeger et al.) were also...
New postdoctoral fellow to join the lab
Dr Josep Font from Catelonia in Spain has just been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Spanish government to join the lab for two years. Josep (Pep) has worked extensively on the thermodynamics of folding of ribonuclease A, under the tutelage of Prof. Maria...
Mugdha wins poster prize
Mugdha Bhati won a Student Poster Prize at the recent Biomolecular Dynamics and Interactions 2007 Meeting: From Single Molecules to Complex Assemblies. With Jacqui chairing the meeting (and no she wasn't a poster judge) and Joel chairing a session, there was a very...
New overseas Masters student on the way
Cuong Dinh Ngyuen, a graduate of the Hanoi National University and currently working at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, has been awarded a Government Scholarship to carry out an MSc in the lab. He will arrive in the second semester of 2007.
Daniel wins postdoctoral fellowships
Daniel Ryan was awarded NHMRC CJ Martin and EMBO postdoctoral fellowships in the most recent rounds. Once he decides which one is more lucrative, it will fund his stay in Tom Owen-Hughes' laboratory at the University of Dundee. Great effort Daniel!