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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"...
Marylène est maintenant une mère
Congratulations to former postdoc Marylene Vandevenne and her husband Mathieu, who have become the proud parents of baby Alice on 27 March. I've been informed that she (Alice that is) is sleeping soundly from 10 pm till 7 am - which sounds like a great start to me!
Xavier and Betsy’s graduation
Xavier and Betsy, who did Honours with Joel and Ann, respectively, graduated in May in full pomp and ceremony - and Jason got his chance to stand in for Joel on the stage - with the special floppy hat...
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!
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!
Joel and Jacqui win cancer research grants
Joel and Jacqui were recently awarded 1-year grants from the Cancer Institute NSW to examine specific aspects of cancer biology.
Liza wins a cancer research grant
Dr Liza Cubeddu has been successful in obtaining a three-year research grant from the International Society for Cancer Research; this grant will fund the work that she is doing in collaboration with Jacqui on the analysis of protein interactions involved in breast...