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Taylor – our STEAMpunk star – in the media again

Lab alumna Taylor Szyszka has a position now at UTS where she is coordinating an outreach program for female high school students. It's a great program that is trying to reach both local and more distant schools in NSW and allowing them to highlight the contributions of *local* women across all these fields. The other day, she had an interview on local radio station 2SER describing the project - you can listen to it...

What more could you ask for…

...as a thank you PhD present? I can't decide which is my favourite part - the craft beer, the Clif bars that have been lovingly brought all the way from the US or the NMR needlepoint! Well, OK, I can decide... Thanks very much Taylor! And great to hear that the STEM job at UTS is going like a train!

Fionna’s new protein-RNA complex structure appears in Molecular Cell

Lab alumna Fionna Loughlin - now working at Monash - has published the culmination of several years of her postdoctoral work in Fred Allain's lab at ETH in Zurich just last week in Molecular Cell [here]. She has determined the structures of several domains of the protein FUS bound to RNA sequences, and shown how they contribute to FUS-mediated splicing. FUS biology/biochemistry is a hot topic these days - given it's ability to form phase-separated structures - so it's good timing. Top effort pushing this through, Fionna!

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!

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