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Michael Webster wins EMBO Fellowship
Michael, who has just recently finished his PhD at the LMB in Cambridge with Lori Passmore, has been successful in winning an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship to fund his work in Albert Weixlbaumer's lab in Strasbourg. Here, he will investigate how translation is linked to transcription in bacteria, by assembling complexes of ribosomes and RNA polymerases and characterizing their structure by cryo-EM and their activity with biochemical assays. A fantastic opportunity - and a great place for us to visit if we happen to be in that part of the world - well done Michael!
Mehdi gets the big tick!
Congratulations to Mehdi, who has just received the official letter saying he has fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD! Hooray! Now, just the graduation ceremony to come!
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!
Dave nails a fellowship and a Discovery Grant
Dr Dave Gell was successful in the recent round of ARC Discovery Grants - he was awarded a Discovery Grant to continue his analysis of the alpha-hemoglobin stabilizing protein AHSP. The grant included an Australian Research Fellowship, so that will keep him off the...
Fionna does it again!
Fionna has proven that her Lorne Poster Prize this year was no fluke by winning a poster prize at the 2006 ComBio conference in Brisbane. Her poster described structural and functional details of RanBP-like zinc finger domains.
Fionna wins Lorne poster prize
Fionna has scaled the heights of poster prizeness by picking up one of the poster prizes at the 2006 Lorne Protein Conference, for her poster on the splicing factor ZNF265.
Joel wins the Gottschalk medal
Joel has been awarded the 2006 Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Science. This award, in memory of Dr A Gottschalk, is given to recognise outstanding research in the medical sciences by scientists under 40 years. Joel is the second member of the School...
Daniel, Molly and Mugda successful at SPG Thompson Prize night
Daniel Ryan won the Sydney Protein Group Thompson Prize, for the best talk given by a young scientist, at the 2005 Thompson Prize Night at Macquarie University on Dec 7th. At the same event it was announced that Molly Clifton and Mugdha Bhati won travelling...
Jacqui wins ARC Grant
In yet more ARC success this year, Jacqui was successful in her bid for a Discovery Grant to fund her work on LIM domain proteins and their role in mammalian development.
Joel and Merlin score ARC Discovery Grant
In a continuation of their long collaboration, Joel and Merlin have been awarded a $550K ARC Discovery Grant to work on transcriptional regulators involved in hematopoiesis.
Ann wins ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Ann Kwan has won a prestigious ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the current round of ARC funding. This fellowship is just reward for Ann's abilities and is a great stepping stone for her career as a researcher. She intends to work on protein design using...
Lab receives crystallization robotics system
We recently were awarded funding to set up a robotic crystallization facility, and have purchased liquid handling, crystallization and visualization robots in order to improve our hit rate with protein crystallization. These instruments have recently arrived in the...
Margie wins RD Wright Fellowship
Dr Margie Sunde has just been awarded a thoroughly deserved RD Wright fellowship from the NHMRC. This five-year fellowship is very prestigious and will give Margie a great chance to consolidate her research with independent funding.
NHMRC Project Grant success
Joel and Dave, in collaboration with David Adams at the Sanger Institute in the UK, have been awarded an NHMRC Project Grant to study the structure and function of a zinc finger protein with a putative role in the regulation of alternative splicing. This project...
Joel and Jacqui win NHMRC Program Grant
Together with Merlin Crossley, Joel and Jacqui were recently awarded $2.8M in a five-year NHMRC Program Grant, to persue their work on understanding the molecular basis of gene regulation. Only a handful of these grants, which emphasize collaborations between...