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Showing off the coast to collaborators
We had a visit this week from David Doak - video game designer and architect of our new virtual reality app focused on allowing students to investigate the properties of polypeptides. Jane Allison - molecular dynamics aficionado from Auckland Uni who is involved in the project - popped over the ditch to join in our discussions too. So, I took the opportunity to take Jane and David on a walk from Malabar around to Coogee on the weekend - superb weather and a fantastic series of rock platforms. It's a great walk to take visitors on... And here are some of David's photos...
New lab paper hits the streets
Well, this paper took quite some time to come to fruition. Biswa from Melbourne worked hard to extract a structure from some less than friendly NMR data on a protein that was gifted to us by Wayne Patrick (formerly in Otago, now in Victoria University Wellington). I'm not sure it's a gift I'd wish on anyone else, but the job is done! Well done Biswa and everyone else who lent a hand over the years...
Xavier gets to put the gown on
Xavier Reid graduated today with his BSc with first class Honours - and you can see him here accompanied by his co-supervisor, Dr Jason Low. No one will mention that Jason isn't wearing his UNSW gown... Xavier has taken the plunge to come back and start a PhD - splitting his time between digging deep into NuRD complex biochemistry and designing new high-affinity, high-specificity regulators of gene expression, using the new RaPID screening technology that has landed at USyd with the arrival of Dr Toby Passioura.
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 wins Applied Biosystems Edman Award
Dave Gell won the Edman Award from the ASBMB - a prize given to postdoctoral researchers with less than seven years experience after completing their PhD. Dave will present his work at ComBio 2004 (in Perth) and receive a big dollop of cash as well!
Ann and Janet win ASBMB travelling fellowships
Ann Kwan and Janet Deane were awarded Travelling Fellowships from the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. These highly competitive awards provide funding for the recipients to attend an international conference in their field.
Philippa wins prize at Lorne Protein Conference
Philippa Stokes won a poster prize at the Lorne Protein conference last week for her work on the CtIP:BRCA1:LMO complex. She was pleased! She plans to not release the movie rights just yet, in order to increase interest among the larger studios.
Big Chu picks up a CJ Martin Fellowship
Chu Kong Liew was recently awarded a four-year CJ Martin Postdoctoral Fellowship from the NHMRC. He has used this fellowship to embark on an overseas adventure to that centre of culture (and basketball) UCLA, where he is working in the lab of Rob Clubb. He is...
Jacqui wins Viertel Fellowship
Jacqui has won the Clive and Sylvia Viertel Medical Research Fellowship for 2003. Only one of these prestigious five-year fellowships was awarded this year Australia-wide. As well as a salary, this fellowship provides additional money for a research assistant and...
New ARC Discovery Grant for lab
Joel was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant (Biophysical characterization of protein interactions within a transcription factor network) for 2004-2006.
Daniel wins poster prize at ComBio 2003
Daniel Ryan won a prize for his poster on the TAL1:LMO2:ldb1 interaction at ComBio 2003 in Melbourne last week.
Joel awarded LIEF grant for NMR cryosystem
Joel, together with Gottfried Otting (ANU), Philip Kuchel and others, has obtained funding (AUD750K) to install a cryosystem on the MMB's 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. The system will come with two probeheads - a TXI (HCN) probe (for protein and other 1H work) and a CH...
Janet wins poster prize
At the recent Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) in Broome, Western Australia, the PDB announced the initiation of the PDB Poster Prize for best student poster presentation in macromolecular crystallography. The prize was awarded to Janet Deane for her work...
Daniel wins poster prize
At the recent East Coast Protein Meeting, held at Coffs Harbour, Daniel Ryan won a prize for the best student poster, for his presentation entitled "Using LMO2:ldb1 fusion protein sto probe multi-protein transcriptional complexes". For his efforts, he was awarded...
A snippet in the news
Joel was profiled (briefly!) in The Sydney Morning Herald's new Health and Science section this week. I know we don't use radioactive waves, but it is the...
Poster Prizes at Lorne
Philippa Stokes and Belinda Westman took out two of the poster prizes at the recent Lorne Conference for Protein Structure and Function. At the same meeting, Joel gave a talk on Ann Kwan and Belinda Sharpe's protein design work, and Jacqui chaired a session....